U+8F98 "辘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8F98 "辘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Han character that originates from the Chinese writing system, where it is commonly used in modern and classical texts. This character is primarily pronounced as "lù" in Mandarin and forms part of compounds such as "轱辘" (gūlu), which means "wheel" or "to roll," and "辘辘" (lùlù), an onomatopoeic term for the rumbling sound of a cart or wheels. Historically, "辘" refers to a pulley, windlass, or the axle of a wheel, and it is also associated with the concept of a spinning or revolving mechanism. In the context of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideographs block, this character is represented in various East Asian scripts, carrying similar meanings in Japanese and Korean, where it may appear in literary or technical vocabulary related to mechanics or motion.

General Properties

Code Point U+8F98
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 辘
HTML Hex Encoding 辘
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0xBE 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8F98
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008F98
C/C++/Java Escape \u8f98

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 293C30
kCangjie KQIXP
kCantonese luk1
kDefinition windlass, pulley, capstan; wheel
kEACC 293C30
kFourCornerCode 4051
kGB0 7404
kHanYu 53554.110
kIICore CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 53554.110
kIRGKangXi 1250.241
kIRG_GSource G0-6A24
kTGH 2013:5898
kKangXi 1250.241
kMainlandTelegraph 6564
kMandarin
kPhonetic 848*
kRSUnicode 159'.11
kTGHZ2013 234.140:lù
kTotalStrokes 15
kTraditionalVariant "轆" U+8F46 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 0738.030:lù