U+8EDB "軛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
軛
U+8EDB "軛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese and Japanese character (simplified as 轭) that primarily refers to a yoke, the wooden harness used to couple draft animals like oxen to a cart or plow. In ancient Chinese contexts, it also carried symbolic meanings of restraint or binding, appearing in classical texts and idioms such as "解軛" meaning to free from a burden or constraint. In modern usage, it is a relatively rare character, mainly encountered in historical literature, calligraphy, or specialized vocabulary related to farming, carriage technology, or metaphorical expressions of control.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8EDB |
| 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 | 軛 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 軛 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xBB 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8EDB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008EDB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8edb |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B36D |
| kCCCII | 215B39 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5D53 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5D53 |
| kCangjie | JJMSU |
| kCantonese | aak1 |
| kCihaiT | 1299.406 |
| kCowles | 17 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1716.160 |
| kDefinition | yoke, collar; to restrain |
| kEACC | 215B39 |
| kFanqie | 於革 |
| kFenn | 196E |
| kFennIndex | 371.05 |
| kFourCornerCode | 5101.2 |
| kGB1 | 7378 |
| kGSR | 0844e |
| kHanYu | 53517.080 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53517.080:è |
| kHKGlyph | 4034 |
| kIICore | ATH |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1716.160 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53517.080 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1240.200 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-696E |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B36D |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-6D43 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-7C3A |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-6466 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5D53 |
| kJapanese | ヤク アク くびき |
| kJapaneseKun | KUBIKI |
| kJapaneseOn | AKU YAKU |
| kJis0 | 7735 |
| kKangXi | 1240.200 |
| kMandarin | è |
| kMatthews | 1741 |
| kMeyerWempe | 12 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ025563 |
| kMorohashi | 38207 |
| kNelson | 4612 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+6850+159.7.4 |
| kRSUnicode | 159.4 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+8EF6<kSMSZD2003Index:T |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "轭" U+8F6D CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 685.05 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | è粵aak1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 6515 |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJMT |
| kXerox | 275:244 |