U+8E4C "蹌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8E4C "蹌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) primarily meaning to walk unsteadily or to stumble, often used in classical texts to describe a swaying or staggering gait. Its pronunciation is typically given as "qiāng" in Mandarin Chinese, though it may have variant readings depending on context. The character is composed of the radical 足 (foot) on the left, indicating action or movement related to the feet, and the phonetic component 倉 on the right. Historically, it appears in literary works like classical poetry and historical records, where it conveys a sense of faltering motion. In modern usage, it is less common but retains relevance in formal or academic references to ancient Chinese script and lexicography.

General Properties

Code Point U+8E4C
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 蹌
HTML Hex Encoding 蹌
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0xB9 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8E4C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008E4C
C/C++/Java Escape \u8e4c

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 EEBE
kCCCII 233A2E
kCNS1986 2-5F6A
kCNS1992 2-5F6A
kCangjie RMOIR
kCantonese coeng1
kCihaiT 1293.403
kDaeJaweon 1703.140
kDefinition walk rapidly
kEACC 233A2E
kFanqie 七羊
kFenn 679G
kFennIndex 46.07
kFourCornerCode 6816.7
kGB1 8536
kGSR 0703j
kHangul 창:1N
kHanYu 63730.010
kHanyuPinyin 63730.010:qiāng,qiàng
kIICore CT
kIRGDaeJaweon 1703.140
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 63730.010
kIRGKangXi 1231.160
kIRG_GSource G1-7544
kIRG_HSource HB2-EEBE
kIRG_JSource J0-6D23
kIRG_KPSource KP1-7B55
kIRG_KSource K1-6E72
kIRG_TSource T2-5F6A
kJapanese ソウ ショウ
kKoreanName 2015
kJapaneseKun UGOKU YOROMEKU
kJapaneseOn SHOU SOU
kJis0 7703
kKangXi 1231.160
kKorean CHANG
kMandarin qiāng
kMatthews 682
kMojiJoho MJ025400
kMorohashi 37755
kNelson 4579
kPhonetic 254
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+6818+157.7.10
kRSUnicode 157.10
kSBGY 176.47
kSemanticVariant U+7244<kMatthews
kSimplifiedVariant "跄" U+8DC4 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index 679.16
kSMSZD2003Readings qiāng粵coeng1 qiàng粵coeng3
kTaiwanTelegraph 6461
kTotalStrokes 17
kUnihanCore2020 HJMT
kXerox 300:360
kXHC1983 0917.051:qiāng 0919.091:qiàng