U+8980 "覀" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

覀

U+8980 "覀" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents the radical for "west" (西) in a simplified or variant form, often used as a component in other complex characters rather than as a standalone word. Its structure consists of two horizontal strokes and two small vertical or hook-like elements inward, resembling a stylized enclosure. In standard Chinese, this glyph is less common than the full form 西, but it appears in historical or calligraphic texts as a shorthand symbol for the concept of western direction or the element of metal in the Five Elements system.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8980
Version Added	1.1
Name	CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Block	CJK Unified Ideographs
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	覀
HTML Hex Encoding	覀
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0xA6 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8980
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008980
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8980

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Ideographic
East Asian Width	Wide
Script	Han
Script Extensions	Han
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	OLetter
Ideographic	Yes
Unified Ideograph	Yes

Unihan Properties

kCangjie	MLLW
kCantonese	sai1
kDefinition	variant of Kangxi radical 146
kFanqie	衣嫁
kGB8	1590
kHanYu	42805.011
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	42805.011
kIRGKangXi	1128.101
kIRG_GSource	G8-2F7A
kIRG_HSource	H-98E2
kIRG_JSource	J4-7845
kJapanese	アエカケ
kJIS0213	2,88,37
kKangXi	1128.101
kMandarin	xī
kMojiJoho	MJ024199
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+13870+146.6.0
kRSUnicode	146.0
kTotalStrokes	6
kUnihanCore2020	H