U+8ECA "車" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
車
U+8ECA "車" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that originally represents a wheeled vehicle, such as a cart or chariot, and is a common radical in East Asian languages including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, where it contributes to words related to transportation and machinery. In modern usage, it functions as a noun for "car" or "vehicle" in simplified Chinese (as 车) and retains its traditional form in contexts like Japanese kanji and traditional Chinese texts, reflecting its historical evolution from ancient pictographs of a two wheeled cart.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8ECA |
| 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 | 車 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 車 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xBB 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8ECA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008ECA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8eca |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A8AE |
| kCCCII | 215B32 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4B4F |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4B4F |
| kCangjie | JWJ |
| kCantonese | ce1 |
| kCihaiT | 1296.204 |
| kCowles | 490 1848 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1712.340 |
| kDefinition | cart, vehicle; carry in a cart; Kangxi radical 159 |
| kEACC | 215B32 |
| kFanqie | 九魚 尺遮 |
| kFenn | 836A |
| kFennIndex | 23.04 |
| kFourCornerCode | 5000.6 |
| kGB1 | 1921 |
| kGradeLevel | 1 |
| kGSR | 0074a |
| kHangul | 거:0E 차:0N |
| kHanYu | 53511.010 |
| kHanyuPinlu | chē(1893) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53511.010:chē,jū |
| kHDZRadBreak | ⾞[U+2F9E]:53511.010 |
| kHKGlyph | 4028 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1712.340 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53511.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1239.010 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-3335 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A8AE |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3C56 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-ECB3 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-7333 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4B4F |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-6869 |
| kJapanese | シャ キョ コ くるま |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | KURUMA |
| kJapaneseOn | SHA KYO |
| kJis0 | 2854 |
| kKangXi | 1239.010 |
| kKarlgren | 472 |
| kKorean | CHA KE |
| kLau | 241 242 979 |
| kMandarin | chē |
| kMatthews | 280 |
| kMeyerWempe | 193 1302b |
| kMojiJoho | MJ025546 |
| kMorohashi | 38172 |
| kNelson | 4608 |
| kPhonetic | 96 670 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2306+159.7.0 |
| kRSUnicode | 159.0 |
| kSBGY | 067.07 164.50 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "车" U+8F66 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 684.06 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | chē粵ce1 jū粵geoi1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 6508 |
| kTang | *giu chia |
| kTotalStrokes | 7 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | xa |
| kXerox | 242:077 |
| kXHC1983 | 0129.041:chē 0609.081:jū |