U+8E2F "踯" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8E2F "踯" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to hesitate" or "to pace back and forth," often found in literary contexts describing indecision or restless movement. It is composed of the radical "足" (foot) on the left, indicating an action related to the feet, and the phonetic component "郑" on the right. This character appears in classical texts and poetry, where it conveys a sense of lingering or faltering steps, and it is also used in modern Chinese in compounds like "踯躅" (zhízhú), which specifically refers to walking slowly or hesitatingly.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8E2F
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	踯
HTML Hex Encoding	踯
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0xB8 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8E2F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008E2F
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8e2f

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

kCCCII	275B2A
kCangjie	XRMTK
kCantonese	zaak6
kDefinition	waver, hesitate, be irresolute
kEACC	275B2A
kFourCornerCode	6712
kGB0	8560
kHanYu	63719.040
kIICore	CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	63719.040
kIRGKangXi	1230.291
kIRG_GSource	G0-755C
kTGH	2013:5917
kKangXi	1230.291
kMainlandTelegraph	6490
kMandarin	zhí
kRSUnicode	157.8
kSMSZD2003Index	679.10
kTGHZ2013	476.110:zhí
kTotalStrokes	15
kTraditionalVariant	"躑" U+8E91 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	1486.040:zhí