U+8F4D "轍" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8F4D "轍" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that carries the general meaning of a wheel track, rut, or path, and by extension, it can refer to a route or a way of doing something, often with a sense of a course that has been traveled. In compound words, it appears in terms like 覆轍 (fùzhé), meaning a repeating mistake or the path of an overturned cart, and 合轍 (hézhé), meaning to be in agreement or to conform to a standard. Its usage is prevalent in classical and modern Chinese literature and discourse, where it symbolizes the concept of following precedent or learning from the past.

General Properties

Code Point U+8F4D
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 轍
HTML Hex Encoding 轍
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0xBD 0x8D
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8F4D
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008F4D
C/C++/Java Escape \u8f4d

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 C2E1
kCCCII 215B54
kCNS1986 1-774C
kCNS1992 1-774C
kCangjie JJYBK
kCantonese cit3
kCihaiT 1307.404
kCowles 565
kDaeJaweon 1727.100
kDefinition wagon ruts, wheel tracks
kEACC 215B54
kFanqie 直列
kFenn 873F
kFennIndex 22.06 23.11
kFourCornerCode 5804.0
kGB1 5362
kGSR 0286e
kHangul 철:0N
kHanYu 53557.010
kHanyuPinyin 53557.010:zhé
kHKGlyph 4063
kIICore ATJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon 1727.100
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 53557.010
kIRGKangXi 1248.230
kIRG_GSource G1-555E
kIRG_HSource HB1-C2E1
kIRG_JSource J0-4532
kIRG_KPSource KP0-EDC2
kIRG_KSource K0-7450
kIRG_TSource T1-774C
kJapanese テツ デチ わだち
kKoreanName 2015
kJapaneseKun WADACHI
kJapaneseOn TETSU
kJis0 3718
kKangXi 1248.230
kKorean CHEL
kMandarin zhé
kMatthews 288
kMeyerWempe 313
kMojiJoho MJ025694
kMorohashi 38524
kNelson 4640
kPhonetic 214
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+3116+159.7.12
kRSUnicode 159.12
kSBGY 499.49
kSimplifiedVariant "辙" U+8F99 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index 689.11
kSMSZD2003Readings zhé粵cit3
kTaiwanTelegraph 6568
kTang djhiɛt
kTotalStrokes 19
kUnihanCore2020 HJKMPT
kXerox 263:067