U+8E73 "蹳" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8E73 "蹳" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rarely used Chinese character that appears in classical literary and historical texts, primarily associated with the meaning of to separate or to remove obstacles by pushing or shoving with the foot. Its structure combines the radical for foot or leg (足, indicating action related to the lower body) with a phonetic component from the character 播 (meaning to sow or spread), though its usage in modern Chinese is extremely limited and it is not part of the standard set of characters taught or used in daily communication. This character is classified under the CJK Unified Ideographs block, which encompasses characters from Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems, and its encoding in Unicode ensures that it can be digitally represented and preserved for scholarly and archival purposes.

General Properties

Code Point U+8E73
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 蹳
HTML Hex Encoding 蹳
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0xB9 0xB3
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8E73
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008E73
C/C++/Java Escape \u8e73

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 F351
kCCCII 233A4E
kCNS1986 2-673D
kCNS1992 2-673D
kCangjie RMNOE
kCantonese but6
kCihaiT 1294.206
kDaeJaweon 1706.010
kFourCornerCode 6214.7
kGB3 7975
kHanYu 63743.010
kHanyuPinyin 63743.010:bō
kIRGDaeJaweon 1706.010
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 63743.010
kIRGKangXi 1233.340
kIRG_GSource G3-6F6B
kIRG_HSource HB2-F351
kIRG_JSource JMJ-025444
kIRG_KPSource KP1-7B87
kIRG_KSource K2-643A
kIRG_TSource T2-673D
kJapanese ハツ ハチ バチ
kKangXi 1233.340
kMandarin
kMojiJoho MJ025444
kMorohashi 37875
kRSUnicode 157.12
kSimplifiedVariant "𫏆" U+2B3C6 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kTotalStrokes 19
kUnihanCore2020 HMT