U+8E0E "踎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8E0E "踎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and regionally specific Chinese character that belongs to the Cantonese dialect, where it is pronounced as "mau4" or "mau5" and carries the meaning of "to squat" or "to crouch." This character is composed of the radical "足" (foot) on the left, indicating an action involving the feet or legs, and the phonetic component "牟" on the right, which provides a clue to its pronunciation. It is often used in colloquial Cantonese expressions, such as "踎低" (mau4 dai1) meaning "to squat down," and appears in informal or vernacular writing rather than formal Mandarin texts. Its inclusion in the CJK Unified Ideographs block reflects the Unicode Consortium's effort to encode a wide range of historic and dialectal Chinese characters, preserving linguistic diversity across East Asian writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point U+8E0E
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 踎
HTML Hex Encoding 踎
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0xB8 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8E0E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008E0E
C/C++/Java Escape \u8e0e

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

kCangjie RMMFR
kCantonese mau1
kCheungBauer 157/07;RMMFR;mau1
kCheungBauerIndex 463.02
kDefinition (Cant.) to squat
kHanYu 63708.061
kIICore CH
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 63708.061
kIRGKangXi 1227.091
kIRG_GSource GH-1288
kIRG_HSource H-9DBF
kKangXi 1227.091
kLau 2111
kMandarin móu
kPseudoGB1 9248
kRSUnicode 157.7
kTotalStrokes 14
kUnihanCore2020 H