U+8F6F "软" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
软
U+8F6F "软" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily conveys the meaning of "soft," "flexible," or "gentle," and it is composed of the radical for "cart" (车) combined with the phonetic component "欠" (qiàn), reflecting its historical association with something yielding or pliable in contrast to hardness. This character is widely used in modern Mandarin Chinese within words such as "软件" (ruǎnjiàn) meaning software, "柔软" (róuruǎn) meaning soft, and "软弱" (ruǎnruò) meaning weak or feeble. Its semantic range extends from physical softness to metaphorical concepts like leniency or lack of rigidity, making it a versatile element in both everyday and technical vocabulary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8F6F |
| 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 | 软 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 软 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xBD 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8F6F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008F6F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8f6f |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 275B38 |
| kCangjie | KQNO |
| kCantonese | jyun5 |
| kDefinition | soft, flexible, pliable; weak |
| kEACC | 275B38 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4758 |
| kGB0 | 4077 |
| kHanYu | 53519.010 |
| kHanyuPinlu | ruǎn(125) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53519.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1250.241 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-486D |
| kTGH | 2013:1062 |
| kKangXi | 1250.241 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 6516 |
| kMandarin | ruǎn |
| kPhonetic | 467* 1631* |
| kRSUnicode | 159'.4 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 317.130:ruǎn |
| kTotalStrokes | 8 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "軟" U+8EDF CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0976.060:ruǎn |