U+8E7E "蹾" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8E7E "蹾" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character composed of a left foot radical and a right phonetic component, primarily used in classical or regional contexts to denote the action of squatting or crouching down, often with the knees bent and weight resting on the balls of the feet. In modern standard Mandarin, it is sometimes associated with the verb "蹲" which similarly means to squat, though "蹾" appears less frequently and may carry a more specific or colloquial nuance in certain dialects or literary texts. Its usage reflects the rich historical evolution of Chinese characters, where variations in radicals and phonetics encode subtle differences in meaning or pronunciation.

General Properties

Code Point U+8E7E
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 蹾
HTML Hex Encoding 蹾
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0xB9 0xBE
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8E7E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008E7E
C/C++/Java Escape \u8e7e

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

kCangjie RMYDK
kCantonese dan3
kCheungBauer 157/12;RMYDK;dan1
kCheungBauerIndex 464.04
kDefinition to squat; to crouch
kFourCornerCode 6814.0
kGB3 8048
kHanYu 63741.020
kHanyuPinyin 63741.020:dūn
kIICore CH
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 63741.020
kIRGKangXi 1234.201
kIRG_GSource G3-7050
kIRG_HSource H-8A5C
kIRG_VSource V2-847A
kTGH 2013:6388
kKangXi 1234.201
kMandarin dūn
kPhonetic 1398*
kRSUnicode 157.12
kSMSZD2003Index 681.11
kSMSZD2003Readings dūn粵deon1
kTGHZ2013 083.110:dūn
kTotalStrokes 19
kUnihanCore2020 GH
kXHC1983 0277.030:dūn