U+8DC6 "跆" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
跆
U+8DC6 "跆" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) primarily used in East Asian writing systems, particularly in Mandarin and Korean. It represents the meaning of "to trample" or "to kick," and it is most famously known as the first character in the word "Taekwondo" (跆拳道), where it symbolizes the act of stepping or stamping with the foot. Structurally, the character is composed of the radical "足" meaning foot, which appears on the left side, and the phonetic component "台" providing pronunciation cues. As part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, this character is encoded for digital text representation across multiple languages and platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8DC6 |
| 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 | 跆 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 跆 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xB7 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8DC6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008DC6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8dc6 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B660 |
| kCCCII | 215A5C |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6247 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6247 |
| kCangjie | RMIR |
| kCantonese | toi4 |
| kCihaiT | 1288.401 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1694.180 |
| kDefinition | trample |
| kEACC | 215A5C |
| kFanqie | 徒哀 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6316.0 |
| kGB0 | 8544 |
| kGB1 | 8544 |
| kHangul | 태:0N |
| kHanYu | 63699.050 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 63699.050:tái |
| kHKGlyph | 3977 |
| kIICore | AGTHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1694.180 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 63699.050 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1222.340 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-754C |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B660 |
| kIRG_JSource | J14-793A |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F0DB |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-7745 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6247 |
| kJapanese | タイ ダイ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:5141 |
| kJIS0213 | 2,89,26 |
| kJapaneseKun | FUMU |
| kJapaneseOn | TAI DAI |
| kJis1 | 6364 |
| kKangXi | 1222.340 |
| kKorean | THAY |
| kMandarin | tái |
| kMatthews | 6012 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ025259 |
| kMorohashi | 37432 |
| kPhonetic | 1373 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+15165+157.7.5 |
| kRSUnicode | 157.5 |
| kSBGY | 099.24 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 675.13 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | tái粵toi4 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 357.020:tái |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHKMPT |
| kXerox | 321:150 |