U+8DEB "跫" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8DEB "跫" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily conveys the meaning of the sound of footsteps or the act of walking with a light, hurried tread, often carrying a poetic or literary nuance suggesting echoing steps in an empty space. Its structure combines the radical for foot or leg with a phonetic component, and it is used in classical Chinese texts and modern prose to evoke a sense of approaching movement or the resonance of a footfall. Historically, it appears in idioms and phrases that describe a sudden or unexpected arrival, emphasizing the auditory rather than the visual aspect of motion. This character is not among the most common in everyday usage, but it retains a distinct expressive value in written Chinese.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8DEB
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	跫
HTML Hex Encoding	跫
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0xB7 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8DEB
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008DEB
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8deb

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	E072
kCCCII	233935
kCNS1986	2-4778
kCNS1992	2-4778
kCangjie	MNRYO
kCantonese	kung4
kCihaiT	1290.602
kDaeJaweon	1696.320
kDefinition	sound of footsteps
kEACC	233935
kFanqie	苦江
kFourCornerCode	1780.1
kGB0	8528
kGB1	8528
kGSR	1172f'
kHangul	공:1N
kHanYu	63700.040
kHanyuPinyin	63700.040:qiāng,qiōng
kIICore	BTJ
kIRGDaeJaweon	1696.320
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	63700.040
kIRGKangXi	1225.160
kIRG_GSource	G0-753C
kIRG_HSource	HB2-E072
kIRG_JSource	J0-6C6F
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-7AAE
kIRG_KSource	K1-5949
kIRG_TSource	T2-4778
kJapanese	キョウ ク コク コウ キョク あしおと
kKoreanName	2015
kJapaneseKun	ASHIOTO
kJapaneseOn	KYOU
kJis0	7679
kKangXi	1225.160
kKorean	KONG
kMainlandTelegraph	6417
kMandarin	qióng
kMojiJoho	MJ025304 MJ025304:E0101 MJ025305:E0102
kMorohashi	37519 37519:E0101
kNelson	4555
kPhonetic	689
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+6800+157.7.6
kRSUnicode	157.6
kSBGY	040.12
kSMSZD2003Index	676.10
kSMSZD2003Readings	qióng粵kung4
kTaiwanTelegraph	6417
kTotalStrokes	13
kUnihanCore2020	GHJMT
kXerox	275:174
kXHC1983	0937.080:qióng