U+8EFA "軺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
軺
U+8EFA "軺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that historically refers to a type of light, two-wheeled carriage used in ancient China, often associated with messengers or minor officials. This ideograph combines the radical for "carriage" (車) with a phonetic component, and it appears in classical texts and historical documents, though it is rarely used in modern Chinese, having been largely replaced by simpler or more common characters. The character reflects the material culture of ancient transportation and administrative communication, and its encoding in Unicode allows for the preservation and digital representation of this nuanced lexical artifact.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8EFA |
| 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 | 軺 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 軺 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xBB 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8EFA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008EFA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8efa |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | DBFE |
| kCCCII | 233B3F |
| kCNS1986 | 2-4064 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-4064 |
| kCangjie | JJSHR |
| kCantonese | jiu4 |
| kCihaiT | 1300.301 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1718.070 |
| kDefinition | small light carriage |
| kEACC | 233B3F |
| kFanqie | 餘昭 市昭 |
| kFourCornerCode | 5706.2 |
| kGB1 | 7387 |
| kGSR | 1131k |
| kHangul | 초:1N |
| kHanYu | 53525.090 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53525.090:yáo,diāo |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1718.070 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53525.090 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1242.160 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-6977 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-DBFE |
| kIRG_JSource | J13-7C4C |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-7C50 |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-6F7B |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-4064 |
| kJapanese | ヨウ ショウ チョウ ジョウ ひつぎぐるま |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJIS0213 | 1,92,44 |
| kJapaneseOn | YOU SHOU JOU CHOU |
| kJis1 | 6467 |
| kKangXi | 1242.160 |
| kKorean | CHO |
| kMandarin | yáo |
| kMeyerWempe | 920j |
| kMojiJoho | MJ025596 |
| kMorohashi | 38272 |
| kPhonetic | 219 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+17142+159.7.5 |
| kRSUnicode | 159.5 |
| kSBGY | 148.39 149.19 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+28373<kMeyerWempe |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "轺" U+8F7A CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 685.15 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | yáo粵jiu4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 6523 |
| kTang | iɛu zhiɛu |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |
| kXerox | 300:365 |