U+8E96 "躖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
躖
U+8E96 "躖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and complex Chinese character that appears in classical or specialized texts, primarily associated with meanings related to following, stepping, or tracing a path, often in the context of footsteps or sequential motion. Its structure combines the radical for "foot" or "leg" (足) with a phonetic component, indicating its semantic field involves actions of the feet or legs. This character is not commonly used in modern standard Chinese but may be encountered in historical or literary works, where it conveys a sense of continuous or connected movement, such as walking in another's steps or linking actions in a chain.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8E96 |
| 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 | 躖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 躖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xBA 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8E96 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008E96 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8e96 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | F762 |
| kCCCII | 254F74 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-6E31 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-6E31 |
| kCangjie | RMVIM |
| kCantonese | teon2 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6217.0 |
| kHanYu | 63748.080 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 63748.080 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1235.440 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-4E4B |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-F762 |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-025482 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-7BB7 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-6E31 |
| kJapanese | タン |
| kKangXi | 1235.440 |
| kMandarin | duàn |
| kMojiJoho | MJ025482 |
| kMorohashi | 37973 |
| kRSUnicode | 157.15 |
| kTotalStrokes | 22 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |