U+8DE3 "跣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8DE3 "跣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "barefoot" or "to go barefoot," and it is composed of the radical for "foot" combined with a phonetic component suggesting a connection to washing or cleaning. In classical Chinese texts, it often appears in phrases describing the act of walking without shoes as a sign of respect, humility, or ritual purity, such as in Confucian ceremonial contexts where one might "跣" (barefoot) to honor ancestors. This character is pronounced "xiǎn" in Mandarin and is used in both modern and historical written Chinese, though it is less common in everyday speech, retaining a formal or literary nuance.

General Properties

Code Point U+8DE3
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 跣
HTML Hex Encoding 跣
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0xB7 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8DE3
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008DE3
C/C++/Java Escape \u8de3

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 E06E
kCCCII 23393B
kCNS1986 2-4774
kCNS1992 2-4774
kCangjie RMHGU
kCantonese sin2
kCihaiT 1289.501
kDaeJaweon 1696.110
kDefinition bare footed
kEACC 23393B
kFanqie 蘇典
kFourCornerCode 6411.1
kGB0 8548
kGB1 8548
kGSR 0478g
kHangul 선:0N
kHanYu 63702.110
kHanyuPinyin 63702.110:xiǎn,xiān,sǔn
kIICore AGHKP
kIRGDaeJaweon 1696.110
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 63702.110
kIRGKangXi 1224.190
kIRG_GSource G0-7550
kIRG_HSource HB2-E06E
kIRG_JSource J0-6C71
kIRG_KPSource KP0-E2CA
kIRG_KSource K0-6053
kIRG_TSource T2-4774
kJapanese セン ソン はだし
kKoreanName 2015
kTGH 2013:5456
kJapaneseKun HADASHI
kJapaneseOn SEN
kJis0 7681
kKangXi 1224.190
kKorean SEN
kMainlandTelegraph 6420
kMandarin xiǎn
kMatthews 2705
kMeyerWempe 2808d
kMojiJoho MJ025294
kMorohashi 37497
kNelson 4556
kPhonetic 1199
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+6802+157.7.6
kRSUnicode 157.6
kSBGY 288.13
kSMSZD2003Index 676.07
kSMSZD2003Readings xiǎn粵sin2
kTaiwanTelegraph 6420
kTGHZ2013 399.040:xiǎn
kTotalStrokes 13
kUnihanCore2020 GHJKMPT
kXerox 275:173
kXHC1983 1249.050:xiǎn