U+8EFD "軽" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8EFD "軽" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Han character that represents the concept of lightness, both in terms of physical weight and abstract qualities such as ease or frivolity. It is primarily used in the Japanese writing system as a shinjitai (simplified) form, derived from the traditional Chinese character 輕 (simplified in Chinese as 轻). This character appears in common Japanese vocabulary like 軽い (karui), meaning light or easy, and 軽量 (keiryou), meaning lightweight. Its structure combines the radical for a cart or vehicle (車) with a phonetic component indicating sound, reflecting its historical formation as a phono-semantic compound.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8EFD
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	軽
HTML Hex Encoding	軽
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0xBB 0xBD
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8EFD
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008EFD
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8efd

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

kCCCII	2D5B43
kCNS1986	E-3F49
kCNS1992	3-3F49
kCangjie	JJEG
kCantonese	zi3
kDaeJaweon	1718.130
kDefinition	light; easy, simple; gentle
kEACC	2D5B43
kFourCornerCode	5701.4
kHanYu	53525.110
kHanyuPinyin	53525.110:zhì,qīng
kIICore	AJ
kIRGDaeJaweon	1718.130
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53525.110
kIRGKangXi	1242.191
kIRG_GSource	GE-4E6C
kIRG_JSource	J0-375A
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-7C3C
kIRG_TSource	T3-3F49
kJapanese	ケイ キョウ キン かるい かろやか かるがるしい かろんじる
kJoyoKanji	2010
kJapaneseKun	KARUI KAROYAKA KARONJIRU
kJapaneseOn	KEI KYOU KIN
kJis0	2358
kKangXi	1242.191
kKorean	KYENG
kMandarin	zhì
kMojiJoho	MJ025599
kMorohashi	38281
kNelson	4620 4624
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+1840+159.7.5
kRSUnicode	159.5
kTotalStrokes	12
kUnihanCore2020	J