U+8ED6 "軖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
軖
U+8ED6 "軖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rarely used Chinese character composed of the radical for "cart" or "vehicle," 車, alongside the phonetic component 㠩 (huāng). This character primarily functions as a variant form of 軭, which historically referred to a specific part of a cart or chariot, often denoting a crossbar or structural element. In classical Chinese texts, it appears in specialized contexts related to ancient vehicle construction or mechanics, but it is not commonly used in modern Mandarin or Japanese writing. Its inclusion in Unicode preserves a piece of historical linguistic heritage, linking contemporary digital text systems to the intricate vocabulary of early Chinese engineering and craft.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8ED6 |
| 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 | 軖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 軖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xBB 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8ED6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008ED6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8ed6 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 25507A |
| kCNS1986 | E-3941 |
| kCNS1992 | 3-3941 |
| kCangjie | JJMG |
| kCantonese | kwong4 |
| kCihaiT | 1299.403 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1716.040 |
| kFanqie | 巨王 |
| kGB3 | 3728 |
| kHanYu | 53516.090 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53516.090:kuáng |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1716.040 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53516.090 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1240.080 |
| kIRG_GSource | G3-453C |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-025559 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-7C2A |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-6464 |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-3941 |
| kJapanese | キョウ コウ |
| kJapaneseKun | TSUMUGIKURUMA |
| kKangXi | 1240.080 |
| kMandarin | kuáng |
| kMojiJoho | MJ025559 |
| kMorohashi | 38195 |
| kRSUnicode | 159.4 |
| kSBGY | 178.08 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "𰹶" U+30E76 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |