U+8E5E "蹞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
蹞
U+8E5E "蹞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and archaic Chinese character that traditionally refers to half a step or the length of one foot in ancient measurements, often used in classical texts to describe a short distance comparable to a pace. This ideograph is composed of the radical "足" (zú), meaning foot or leg, on the left side, and a phonetic component on the right, which together convey its specific semantic and phonetic properties. While it is not commonly used in modern Chinese, it appears in historical literature and specialized contexts, particularly in discussions of ancient Chinese metrology or literary descriptions of measured movement.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8E5E |
| 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 | 蹞 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 蹞 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xB9 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8E5E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008E5E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8e5e |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | F0FC |
| kCCCII | 233A3F |
| kCNS1986 | 2-6367 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-6367 |
| kCangjie | RMPMC |
| kCantonese | kwai2 |
| kCihaiT | 1294.108 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1704.280 |
| kEACC | 233A3F |
| kFourCornerCode | 6118.6 |
| kGB5 | 7891 |
| kHanYu | 63734.040 |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1704.280 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 63734.040 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1232.270 |
| kIRG_GSource | G5-6E7B |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-F0FC |
| kIRG_JSource | J1-6035 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-7B5F |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-642D |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-6367 |
| kJapanese | キ かたあし |
| kJapaneseKun | HITOASHI |
| kJapaneseOn | KI |
| kJis1 | 6421 |
| kKangXi | 1232.270 |
| kMandarin | kuǐ |
| kMojiJoho | MJ025417 MJ025417:E0101 MJ025418:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 37813 37813:E0101 |
| kPhonetic | 628 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+22623+157.7.11 |
| kRSUnicode | 157.11 |
| kTotalStrokes | 18 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |