U+8DEA "跪" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

跪

U+8DEA "跪" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means to kneel, representing a posture of deference, submission, or respect taken from a standing position by lowering oneself onto one's knees. In traditional East Asian cultures, this gesture is deeply significant, historically used in imperial contexts, religious rituals, or formal ceremonies such as offering respect to elders or deities. The character combines the radical for "foot" or "leg" (足) with a phonetic component suggesting a bent or curving motion, reflecting its physical meaning of bending the knees to the ground. In modern usage, "跪" also appears in metaphorical expressions, such as "to kneel in apology" or figuratively in online slang to indicate extreme admiration or surrender.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8DEA
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	跪
HTML Hex Encoding	跪
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0xB7 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8DEA
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008DEA
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8dea

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	B8F7
kCCCII	215A64
kCNS1986	1-667E
kCNS1992	1-667E
kCangjie	RMNMU
kCantonese	gwai6
kCihaiT	1289.601
kCowles	2070
kDaeJaweon	1696.290
kDefinition	kneel
kEACC	215A64
kFanqie	去委渠委
kFenn	197C
kFennIndex	273.03
kFourCornerCode	6711.2
kGB0	2582
kGB1	2582
kGradeLevel	4
kGSR	0029f
kHangul	궤:1N
kHanYu	63704.030
kHanyuPinlu	guì(55)
kHanyuPinyin	63704.030:guì
kHKGlyph	3984
kIICore	AGTHM
kIRGDaeJaweon	1696.290
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	63704.030
kIRGKangXi	1225.130
kIRG_GSource	G0-3972
kIRG_HSource	HB1-B8F7
kIRG_JSource	J0-6C6E
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-7AB3
kIRG_KSource	K1-5B32
kIRG_TSource	T1-667E
kIRG_VSource	V1-684F
kJapanese	キギひざまづくひざまずく
kKoreanName	2015
kTGH	2013:2917
kJapaneseKun	HIZAMAZU
kJapaneseOn	KI
kJis0	7678
kKangXi	1225.130
kKorean	KWEY
kLau	1034
kMainlandTelegraph	6422
kMandarin	guì
kMatthews	3627
kMeyerWempe	1376
kMojiJoho	MJ025303
kMorohashi	37516
kNelson	4559
kPhonetic	959
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+6799+157.7.6
kRSUnicode	157.6
kSBGY	242.05 246.50
kSMSZD2003Index	676.09
kSMSZD2003Readings	guì粵gwai6
kTaiwanTelegraph	6422
kTang	ghyuɛ̌
kTGHZ2013	125.080:guì
kTotalStrokes	13
kUnihanCore2020	GHJMT
kVietnamese	quỳ
kXerox	253:255
kXHC1983	0420.120:guì