U+8F7B "轻" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8F7B "轻" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that means "light" in the sense of low weight, and it also conveys ideas of gentle, mild, or easily manageable. Composed of the radical 车 (chē, meaning "vehicle") and the phonetic component 巠, it is a common character in modern Chinese vocabulary, appearing in words such as 轻松 (qīngsōng, "light and easy") and 年轻 (niánqīng, "young," literally "light in years"). In Japanese, this character is read as "karui" or "kei" and carries similar meanings of lightness or triviality.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8F7B
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	轻
HTML Hex Encoding	轻
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0xBD 0xBB
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8F7B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008F7B
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8f7b

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

kCCCII	275B43
kCangjie	KQNOM
kCantonese	hing1
kDefinition	light; easy, simple; gentle
kEACC	275B43
kFourCornerCode	4751
kGB0	3965
kHanYu	53526.010
kHanyuPinlu	qīng(859)
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53526.010
kIRGKangXi	1250.241
kIRG_GSource	G0-4761
kTGH	2013:1463
kKangXi	1250.241
kMainlandTelegraph	6535
kMandarin	qīng
kPhonetic	623*
kRSUnicode	159'.5
kSMSZD2003Index	686.08
kTGHZ2013	303.070:qīng
kTotalStrokes	9
kTraditionalVariant	"輕" U+8F15 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0932.060:qīng