U+8E51 "蹑" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8E51 "蹑" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means to tread lightly, to walk stealthily, or to follow closely behind someone, often with the connotation of stepping softly to avoid being heard. It is composed of the radical for "foot" indicating its association with movement or walking, and a phonetic component suggesting pronunciation. In classical and modern Chinese usage, it appears in words like "蹑手蹑脚" meaning to walk on tiptoe or move stealthily, and it also carries extended meanings such as to step on or to climb up, used in contexts ranging from physical action to figurative expressions of pursuit or secretive observation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8E51
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	蹑
HTML Hex Encoding	蹑
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0xB9 0x91
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8E51
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008E51
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8e51

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	275B2B
kCangjie	XRMSJ
kCantonese	nip6
kDaeJaweon	1703.310
kDefinition	tread, step on; follow, track
kEACC	275B2B
kFourCornerCode	6114
kGB0	8570
kHanYu	63727.120
kIICore	CG
kIRGDaeJaweon	1703.310
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	63727.120
kIRGKangXi	1231.301
kIRG_GSource	G0-7566
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-025405
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-7B50
kIRG_TSource	T4-592D
kJapanese	ジョウ
kTGH	2013:6227
kKangXi	1231.301
kMainlandTelegraph	6495
kMandarin	niè
kMojiJoho	MJ025405
kMorohashi	37778
kPhonetic	979*
kRSUnicode	157.10
kSMSZD2003Index	680.07
kTGHZ2013	268.010:niè
kTotalStrokes	17
kTraditionalVariant	"躡" U+8EA1 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0834.070:niè