U+8E2D "踭" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
踭
U+8E2D "踭" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character composed of the foot radical 足 on the left and the phonetic component 争 on the right, and it primarily means the heel of the foot, specifically the bony prominence at the back of the heel or the anatomical calcaneus. In Cantonese usage, it is commonly used to refer to the heel, and it appears in terms such as 腳踭 (goek3 zaang1), meaning the heel. This character is classified under the Kangxi radical 足, which relates to feet or actions involving the foot, and it is rarely used in standard Mandarin Chinese, being more prevalent in Cantonese and written vernacular Chinese contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8E2D |
| 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 | 踭 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 踭 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xB8 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8E2D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008E2D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8e2d |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCangjie | RMBSD |
| kCantonese | zaang1 |
| kCheungBauer | 157/08;RMBSD;zaang1 |
| kCheungBauerIndex | 463.04 |
| kCowles | 95 |
| kDefinition | (Cant.) heel, elbow |
| kHanYu | 63717.080 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 63717.080:zhēng |
| kIICore | CH |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 63717.080 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1226.091 |
| kIRG_GSource | GH-1289 |
| kIRG_HSource | H-9E5A |
| kIRG_MSource | MA-9E5A |
| kIRG_VSource | V3-3841 |
| kKangXi | 1226.091 |
| kLau | 1297 |
| kMandarin | zhēng |
| kMeyerWempe | 97 |
| kPseudoGB1 | 9249 |
| kRSUnicode | 157.8 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+3B39<kMeyerWempe |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 678.12 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | zhēng粵zaang1 |
| kTotalStrokes | 13 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | H |