U+8F4E "轎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
轎
U+8F4E "轎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that primarily refers to a sedan chair, a type of enclosed vehicle historically carried by bearers, often used by the wealthy or officials in East Asian cultures. This ideograph, pronounced "jiao" in Mandarin, is composed of the radical for a carriage or vehicle on the left side, combined with phonetic and semantic elements on the right, and it appears in various contexts related to transportation, festivals, or ceremonial processions. In modern usage, the character is also applied to certain types of litters, palanquins, or even spiritual conveyances in religious practices, reflecting its enduring significance in Chinese historical and cultural traditions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8F4E |
| 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 | 轎 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 轎 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xBD 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8F4E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008F4E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8f4e |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C3E2 |
| kCCCII | 215B57 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-792F |
| kCNS1992 | 1-792F |
| kCangjie | JJHKB |
| kCantonese | giu2 |
| kCihaiT | 1307.405 |
| kCowles | 1703 1712 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1727.180 |
| kDefinition | sedan-chair, palanquin |
| kEACC | 215B57 |
| kFanqie | 巨嬌 渠廟 |
| kFenn | 583B |
| kFennIndex | 51.03 |
| kFourCornerCode | 5202.7 |
| kGB1 | 2946 |
| kHangul | 교:0N |
| kHanYu | 53556.040 |
| kHanyuPinlu | jiào(27) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53556.040:jiào |
| kHKGlyph | 4065 |
| kIICore | ATHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1727.180 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53556.040 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1248.310 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-3D4E |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C3E2 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-6D5D |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-D0DA |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-4E73 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-792F |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-687A |
| kJapanese | キョウ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | KAGO YAMAKAGO |
| kJapaneseOn | KYOU |
| kJis0 | 7761 |
| kKangXi | 1248.310 |
| kKarlgren | 359 |
| kKorean | KYO |
| kLau | 935 |
| kMandarin | jiào |
| kMatthews | 693 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1189 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ025695 |
| kMorohashi | 38532 |
| kPhonetic | 636 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+6876+159.7.12 |
| kRSUnicode | 159.12 |
| kSBGY | 150.35 414.10 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "轿" U+8F7F CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 689.12 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | jiào粵giu2 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 6569 |
| kTotalStrokes | 19 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | kiệu |
| kXerox | 252:155 |
| kXHC1983 | 0573.031:jiào |