U+8E5A "蹚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

蹚

U+8E5A "蹚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily functions as a verb meaning to wade through water or mud, or to tread and trample, often implying a forceful or careless step through a liquid or soft surface. It is composed of the radical "足" meaning foot, which suggests an action related to stepping or walking, combined with the phonetic component "堂" which contributes to its pronunciation. In modern usage, this character appears in contexts such as literary descriptions of crossing a river or traversing a flooded path, and it can also be used metaphorically to describe venturing into a difficult or messy situation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8E5A
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	蹚
HTML Hex Encoding	蹚
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0xB9 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8E5A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008E5A
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8e5a

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	F141
kCCCII	233A3E
kCNS1986	2-636B
kCNS1992	2-636B
kCangjie	RMFBG
kCantonese	tong3
kDefinition	tread through mud and water
kEACC	233A3E
kFourCornerCode	6911.4
kHanYu	63734.090
kHanyuPinyin	63734.090:tāng,tàng,chēng
kIICore	BGT
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	63734.090
kIRGKangXi	1232.200
kIRG_GSource	GE-4E41
kIRG_HSource	HB2-F141
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-025413
kIRG_KSource	K2-642A
kIRG_TSource	T2-636B
kJapanese	トウジョウ
kTGH	2013:6333
kKangXi	1232.200
kMandarin	tāng
kMojiJoho	MJ025413
kMorohashi	37806
kPhonetic	1382
kRSUnicode	157.11
kSMSZD2003Index	680.14
kSMSZD2003Readings	tāng粵tong3
kTaiwanTelegraph	6499
kTGHZ2013	359.140:tāng
kTotalStrokes	18
kUnihanCore2020	GHMT
kXerox	314:062
kXHC1983	1117.060:tāng