U+8EFE "軾" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8EFE "軾" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that historically refers to the crossbar or handrail at the front of a carriage or chariot, which a rider or passenger could grasp for support while standing. In classical texts, it is often used in the context of ancient Chinese etiquette and warfare, where a person might "lean on the shi" as a gesture of respect or to steady themselves. The character is composed of the radical for "cart" or "vehicle" on the left and the phonetic component "式" on the right, and it is occasionally encountered in historical names, literature, and poetry within the broader corpus of traditional Chinese writing.

General Properties

Code Point U+8EFE
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 軾
HTML Hex Encoding 軾
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0xBB 0xBE
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8EFE
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008EFE
C/C++/Java Escape \u8efe

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 B8FD
kCCCII 215B3E
kCNS1986 1-6726
kCNS1992 1-6726
kCangjie JJIPM
kCantonese sik1
kCihaiT 1300.403
kDaeJaweon 1718.140
kDefinition horizontal wooden bar in front of a sedan chair
kEACC 215B3E
kFanqie 賞職
kFourCornerCode 5304.0
kGB1 7388
kGSR 0918l
kHangul 식:0N
kHanYu 53526.070
kHanyuPinyin 53526.070:shì
kHKGlyph 4041
kIICore ATJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon 1718.140
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 53526.070
kIRGKangXi 1242.200
kIRG_GSource G1-6978
kIRG_HSource HB1-B8FD
kIRG_JSource J0-6D48
kIRG_KPSource KP0-E5C2
kIRG_KSource K0-635C
kIRG_TSource T1-6726
kJapanese ショク シキ しきみ
kKoreanName 2015
kJapaneseKun SHIKIMI
kJapaneseOn SHOKU SHIKI
kJis0 7740
kKangXi 1242.200
kKorean SIK
kMandarin shì
kMatthews 5819
kMeyerWempe 2705h
kMojiJoho MJ025600
kMorohashi 38285
kPhonetic 1193
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+6855+159.7.6
kRSUnicode 159.6
kSBGY 525.41
kSimplifiedVariant "轼" U+8F7C CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index 686.09
kSMSZD2003Readings shì粵sik1
kTaiwanTelegraph 6524
kTotalStrokes 13
kUnihanCore2020 HJKMPT
kXerox 275:245