U+8F57 "轗" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
轗
U+8F57 "轗" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and complex Chinese character that primarily denotes the concept of being stuck or obstructed, often used in classical or literary contexts to describe a state of difficulty, hardship, or impediment. It is composed of the radical for "vehicle" or "cart" on the left side, which hints at motion or travel, combined with a phonetic and semantic component on the right that suggests a sense of blockage or karmic hindrance. This character appears in ancient texts and dictionaries, such as the Kangxi Dictionary, and is occasionally encountered in scholarly works dealing with historical Chinese language, particularly in phrases related to adversity or misfortune.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8F57 |
| 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 | 轗 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 轗 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xBD 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8F57 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008F57 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8f57 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | F4DC |
| kCCCII | 233C49 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-6A2A |
| kCNS1992 | 2-6A2A |
| kCangjie | JJIRP |
| kCantonese | ham2 |
| kCihaiT | 1307.603 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1727.350 |
| kDefinition | fail |
| kEACC | 233C49 |
| kFanqie | 苦感 苦紺 |
| kFourCornerCode | 5303.5 |
| kGB5 | 3990 |
| kHangul | 감:1N |
| kHanYu | 53558.030 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53558.030:kǎn |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1727.350 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53558.030 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1249.090 |
| kIRG_GSource | G5-477A |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-F4DC |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-6D5E |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-7CEF |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-5753 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-6A2A |
| kJapanese | カン コン |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseOn | KAN |
| kJis0 | 7762 |
| kKangXi | 1249.090 |
| kKorean | KEM |
| kMandarin | kǎn |
| kMatthews | 3257 |
| kMeyerWempe | 772b |
| kMojiJoho | MJ025707 |
| kMorohashi | 38550 |
| kNelson | 4641 |
| kPhonetic | 652 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+6877+159.7.13 |
| kRSUnicode | 159.13 |
| kSBGY | 331.35 441.37 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+3673<kMeyerWempe |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "𫐘" U+2B418 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 9296 |
| kTotalStrokes | 20 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJMT |
| kXerox | 317:057 |