U+8F96 "辖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
辖
U+8F96 "辖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily functions as a verb meaning to govern, control, or administer, and it is also used as a noun to refer to a linchpin, a small piece of metal that secures a wheel axle in ancient Chinese carts. In modern contexts, it appears in terms like 管辖 (guǎnxiá), meaning jurisdiction or to have authority over an area, and it carries a semantic and phonetic component typical of its radical, 车 (vehicle or cart). This character is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, standardized in Unicode for cross-platform digital representation, and it corresponds to the Kangxi radical number 159, reflecting its historical ties to transportation and control.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8F96 |
| 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 | 辖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 辖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xBE 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8F96 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008F96 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8f96 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 275B4F |
| kCangjie | KQJQR |
| kCantonese | hat6 |
| kDefinition | linchpin of wheel; control |
| kEACC | 275B4F |
| kFourCornerCode | 4356 |
| kGB0 | 4729 |
| kHanYu | 53551.020 |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53551.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1250.241 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4F3D |
| kTGH | 2013:3096 |
| kKangXi | 1250.241 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 6561 |
| kMandarin | xiá |
| kPhonetic | 491* |
| kRSUnicode | 159'.10 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 396.110:xiá |
| kTotalStrokes | 14 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "轄" U+8F44 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 1238.100:xiá |