U+8EE5 "軥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

軥

U+8EE5 "軥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that historically refers to the yoke or crossbar of a carriage, specifically the wooden bar placed across the necks of a pair of oxen or horses to harness them together. This character is composed of the "carriage" radical on the left and a phonetic component on the right, and it appears in classical texts, including ancient Chinese dictionaries and literary works, where it describes the essential harness component used for pulling vehicles. While rarely used in modern Chinese, it remains an important glyph in the study of historical Chinese writing and phonology.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8EE5
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	軥
HTML Hex Encoding	軥
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0xBB 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8EE5
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008EE5
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8ee5

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

kBigFive	DC43
kCCCII	233B48
kCNS1986	2-4068
kCNS1992	2-4068
kCangjie	JJPR
kCantonese	keoi4
kCihaiT	1299.409
kDaeJaweon	1717.130
kDefinition	yoke
kFanqie	其俱古侯古候
kFourCornerCode	5702.0
kGB3	3743
kGSR	0108x
kHanYu	53524.040
kHanyuPinyin	53524.040:qú,gōu,gòu,jū
kIRGDaeJaweon	1717.130
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53524.040
kIRGKangXi	1241.130
kIRG_GSource	G3-454B
kIRG_HSource	HB2-DC43
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-025574
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-7C40
kIRG_KSource	K2-646C
kIRG_TSource	T2-4068
kJapanese	クグコウくびき
kKangXi	1241.130
kMandarin	qú
kMojiJoho	MJ025574
kMorohashi	38236
kPhonetic	673
kRSUnicode	159.5
kSBGY	074.36 215.11 439.33
kSimplifiedVariant	"𰺁" U+30E81 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kTaiwanTelegraph	9294
kTotalStrokes	12
kUnihanCore2020	HMT
kXerox	314:073