U+8F73 "轳" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
轳
U+8F73 "轳" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily refers to a windlass, pulley, or winch, often specifically denoting the mechanism used to draw water from a well, such as in the compound word "辘轳". This character belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideograph block and is composed of the radical "车" (vehicle or cart) on the left, with the phonetic component "卢" providing a clue to its pronunciation. In modern usage, it appears in technical or traditional contexts relating to mechanical hoisting devices, and it is a standard character in both simplified and traditional Chinese writing systems, with its form and meaning consistent across these scripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8F73 |
| 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 | 轳 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 轳 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xBD 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8F73 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008F73 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8f73 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 293C5A |
| kCangjie | KQYS |
| kCantonese | lou4 |
| kDefinition | pulley, windlass, capstan |
| kEACC | 293C5A |
| kFourCornerCode | 4150 |
| kGB0 | 7381 |
| kHanYu | 53520.090 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53520.090 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1250.241 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-6971 |
| kTGH | 2013:4180 |
| kKangXi | 1250.241 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 6578 |
| kMandarin | lú |
| kPhonetic | 820A* |
| kRSUnicode | 159'.5 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 686.06 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 232.130:lú |
| kTotalStrokes | 9 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "轤" U+8F64 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0736.080:lú |