U+8E9E "躞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8E9E "躞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a complex Chinese character that primarily means “to walk” or “to tread,” and it is often associated with the idea of moving or shuffling in a delicate or hesitant manner. This character is composed of the radical “足” meaning “foot,” indicating its connection to walking or stepping, combined with a phonetic component. While not commonly used in modern everyday Chinese, it appears in classical literature and historical texts, sometimes describing a person walking with a dignified or measured gait. Its pronunciation in standard Mandarin is “xiè,” and it serves as a rare but meaningful part of the broader CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideograph set, reflecting the rich lexical diversity of East Asian written languages.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8E9E
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	躞
HTML Hex Encoding	躞
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0xBA 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8E9E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008E9E
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8e9e

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	F8C3
kCCCII	233A64
kCNS1986	2-7051
kCNS1992	2-7051
kCangjie	RMFFE
kCantonese	sip3
kCihaiT	1295.402
kDaeJaweon	1708.370
kDefinition	to walk
kEACC	233A64
kFanqie	蘇協
kFourCornerCode	6014.7
kGB0	8583
kGB1	8583
kHangul	섭:N
kHanYu	63750.040
kHanyuPinyin	63750.040:xiè
kIRGDaeJaweon	1708.370
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	63750.040
kIRGKangXi	1236.160
kIRG_GSource	G0-7573
kIRG_HSource	HB2-F8C3
kIRG_JSource	J14-7953
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-7BCF
kIRG_KSource	K2-644C
kIRG_TSource	T2-7051
kJapanese	ショウ
kKoreanName	2015
kTGH	2013:6488
kJIS0213	2,89,51
kJapaneseKun	YUKU
kJapaneseOn	SHOU
kJis1	6442
kKangXi	1236.160
kKorean	SEP
kMainlandTelegraph	9351
kMandarin	xiè
kMatthews	2656
kMojiJoho	MJ025489
kMorohashi	37997
kPhonetic	1217
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+18742+157.7.17
kRSUnicode	157.17
kSBGY	542.24
kSMSZD2003Index	683.03
kSMSZD2003Readings	xiè粵sip3,sit3
kTaiwanTelegraph	9279
kTGHZ2013	406.240:xiè
kTotalStrokes	24
kUnihanCore2020	GHMT
kXerox	307:076
kXHC1983	1276.070:xiè