U+8EC4 "軄" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
軄
U+8EC4 "軄" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and complex Chinese character found in historical texts, primarily used as an archaic variant for the word meaning "duty," "office," or "function," often written in modern standard Chinese as "職." This character belongs to the Kangxi radical 159, meaning "cart" or "vehicle," and is composed of multiple strokes reflecting its ancient origins in classical literature and calligraphy. It appears infrequently in contemporary usage, but it is encoded in Unicode to support the preservation and digital representation of premodern Chinese writings, ensuring scholars and typographers can accurately reproduce traditional documents.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8EC4 |
| 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 | 軄 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 軄 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xBB 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8EC4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008EC4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8ec4 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 2D5278 |
| kCangjie | HHYIA |
| kCantonese | zik1 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1712.170 |
| kDefinition | to govern, to oversee, to manage, to direct official duty, office |
| kFanqie | 之翼 |
| kHanYu | 63813.170 |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1712.170 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 63813.170 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1238.120 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-4E5A |
| kIRG_JSource | J1-6057 |
| kIRG_TSource | T4-6156 |
| kJapanese | ショク つかさ |
| kJapaneseOn | SHOKU |
| kJis1 | 6455 |
| kKangXi | 1238.120 |
| kLau | 1457 |
| kMandarin | zhí |
| kMatthews | 990 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ025536 MJ025536:E0101 MJ025537:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 38152 38152:E0101 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+22633+158.7.12 |
| kRSUnicode | 158.12 |
| kSBGY | 524.30 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+8077<kLau,kMatthews |
| kTotalStrokes | 19 |