U+8DCF "跏" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

跏

U+8DCF "跏" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (Hanzi) traditionally used in East Asian writing systems, particularly in classical and religious texts. Its primary meaning relates to a seated posture, most notably the "lotus position" (跏趺坐, jiāfū zuò) in Buddhism, where it describes the cross-legged sitting posture with the feet placed on the opposite thighs, a position used for meditation and contemplation. The character is composed of the radical for "foot" (足) on the left, indicating its association with the lower body, and a phonetic component on the right. In modern contexts, it appears mainly in Buddhist terminology, literature on meditation, and historical or scholarly discussions of traditional sitting practices, rather than in everyday conversation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8DCF
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	跏
HTML Hex Encoding	跏
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0xB7 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8DCF
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008DCF
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8dcf

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

kBigFive	DBF6
kCCCII	233921
kCNS1986	2-405C
kCNS1992	2-405C
kCangjie	RMKSR
kCantonese	gaa1
kCihaiT	1288.601
kDaeJaweon	1695.080
kDefinition	sit cross-legged; squat
kEACC	233921
kFanqie	古牙
kFourCornerCode	6610.0
kGB0	8542
kGB1	8542
kHangul	가:0N
kHanYu	63699.030
kHanyuPinyin	63699.030:jiā
kIICore	AGJKP
kIRGDaeJaweon	1695.080
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	63699.030
kIRGKangXi	1223.200
kIRG_GSource	G0-754A
kIRG_HSource	HB2-DBF6
kIRG_JSource	J0-6C68
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-CDB9
kIRG_KSource	K0-4A3A
kIRG_TSource	T2-405C
kJapanese	カケ
kKoreanName	2015
kTGH	2013:5140
kJapaneseOn	KA
kJis0	7672
kKangXi	1223.200
kKorean	KA
kMainlandTelegraph	6409
kMandarin	jiā
kMatthews	589
kMojiJoho	MJ025270
kMorohashi	37457
kPhonetic	532
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+6793+157.7.5
kRSUnicode	157.5
kSBGY	166.46
kSMSZD2003Index	675.11
kSMSZD2003Readings	jiā粵gaa1
kTaiwanTelegraph	6409
kTGHZ2013	161.030:jiā
kTotalStrokes	12
kUnihanCore2020	GHJKMPT
kXerox	300:354
kXHC1983	0541.090:jiā