U+8F3F "輿" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
輿
U+8F3F "輿" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that fundamentally means "chariot," "carriage," or "palanquin," and by extension carries connotations of "public opinion" or "the masses." This character combines the radical for "cart" or "vehicle" (車) with a phonetic component, and it appears in classical texts where it refers to both a physical mode of transport and, through a layered historical metaphor, the idea of that which carries or supports a society. In modern usage, it is most commonly encountered in the word "輿論" (yúlùn), meaning "public opinion" or "public discourse," illustrating how an ancient symbol for a vehicle has evolved to represent the collective voice that carries societal weight.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8F3F |
| 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 | 輿 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 輿 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xBC 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8F3F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008F3F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8f3f |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C1D6 |
| kCCCII | 215B53 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7561 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7561 |
| kCangjie | HXJC |
| kCantonese | jyu4 |
| kCihaiT | 1305.602 |
| kCowles | 4884 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1724.260 |
| kDefinition | cart, palanquin; public opinion |
| kEACC | 215B53 |
| kFanqie | 以諸 羊洳 |
| kFourCornerCode | 7780.1 |
| kGB1 | 5163 |
| kGradeLevel | 6 |
| kGSR | 0089j |
| kHangul | 여:0E |
| kHanYu | 53549.090 |
| kHanyuPinlu | yú(9) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53549.090:yú,yù |
| kHKGlyph | 4061 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1724.260 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53549.090 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1247.170 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-535F |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C1D6 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4D41 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F8D2 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-662B |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7561 |
| kJapanese | ヨ こし |
| kJinmeiyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kJapaneseKun | KOSHI |
| kJapaneseOn | YO |
| kJis0 | 4533 |
| kKangXi | 1247.170 |
| kKorean | YE |
| kMandarin | yú |
| kMatthews | 7618 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3632 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ025677 |
| kMorohashi | 38468 |
| kNelson | 0616 |
| kPhonetic | 1616 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+3883+159.7.10 |
| kRSUnicode | 159.10 |
| kSBGY | 067.45 363.19 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+8F5D<kMatthews |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "舆" U+8206 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 689.04 566.09 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | yú粵jyu4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 6559 |
| kTang | *iu |
| kTotalStrokes | 17 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kXerox | 261:162 |