U+8F8C "辌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8F8C "辌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rarely used Chinese logograph that historically referred to a type of ancient carriage or light vehicle, often associated with funerary or ceremonial transport. This character, formed with the radical for "vehicle" (车) and a phonetic component, appears in classical Chinese texts but is virtually absent in modern everyday usage, surviving primarily in historical linguistics or specialized studies of ancient Chinese lexicon. Its encoding in Unicode ensures that this obscure but culturally significant ideograph remains accessible for digital preservation and scholarly research.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8F8C
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	辌
HTML Hex Encoding	辌
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0xBE 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8F8C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008F8C
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8f8c

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

kCangjie	KQYRF
kCantonese	loeng4
kDefinition	a hearse; a carriage
kFourCornerCode	4059.6
kHanYu	53542.011
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53542.011
kIRGKangXi	1250.241
kIRG_GSource	G7-2126
kTGH	2013:7344
kKangXi	1250.241
kMandarin	liáng
kRSUnicode	159'.8
kTGHZ2013	221.030:liáng
kTotalStrokes	12
kTraditionalVariant	"輬" U+8F2C CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0706.060:liáng