U+8EC4 "軄" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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

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