U+8F59 "轙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

轙

U+8F59 "轙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and ancient Chinese character that historically refers to a type of ornate crossbar or ring on a carriage yoke, often used to control or direct the horses drawing the vehicle. It belongs to the radical for "cart" or "vehicle" and appears in classical Chinese texts, where it signifies a specific component of ceremonial or aristocratic chariots. Due to its specialized and archaic nature, it is not commonly used in modern Chinese or Japanese writing, but it remains preserved in Unicode to support historical and scholarly documentation of early Chinese language and culture.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8F59
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	轙
HTML Hex Encoding	轙
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0xBD 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8F59
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008F59
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8f59

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	F4DA
kCCCII	233C44
kCNS1986	2-6A28
kCNS1992	2-6A28
kCangjie	JJTGI
kCantonese	ngai5
kCihaiT	1307.605
kDaeJaweon	1728.050
kDefinition	rings on a yoke
kFanqie	魚羈魚倚
kFourCornerCode	5805.3
kGB3	3725
kHanYu	53559.070
kHanyuPinyin	53559.070:yǐ
kIRGDaeJaweon	1728.050
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53559.070
kIRGKangXi	1249.140
kIRG_GSource	G3-4539
kIRG_HSource	HB2-F4DA
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-025709
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-7CF9
kIRG_KSource	K2-6541
kIRG_TSource	T2-6A28
kJapanese	ギ
kKangXi	1249.140
kMandarin	yǐ
kMatthews	4674
kMojiJoho	MJ025709
kMorohashi	38555
kRSUnicode	159.13
kSBGY	045.12 243.25
kSimplifiedVariant	"𰹵" U+30E75 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kTotalStrokes	20
kUnihanCore2020	HMT