U+8F99 "辙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8F99 "辙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means a wheel rut, a track, or a path, and is often used metaphorically to refer to a direction, way, or pattern of behavior. In its extended usage, it can also signify a rhyme or a principle in literary contexts, such as in the term "辙韵" referring to rhyme schemes. The character is composed of the radical 车 (vehicle) on the left, indicating its association with wheels and transportation, and the phonetic component 彻 on the right, which contributes to its pronunciation (zhé in Mandarin). Common words incorporating "辙" include "覆辙" meaning overturned cart tracks, which metaphorically denotes a lesson from a past failure, and "合辙" meaning to fit into a pattern or to be in agreement. This character appears in classical texts, modern Chinese literature, and everyday language, reflecting both concrete and abstract concepts of movement and alignment.

General Properties

Code Point U+8F99
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 辙
HTML Hex Encoding 辙
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0xBE 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8F99
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008F99
C/C++/Java Escape \u8f99

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 275B54
kCangjie KQYBK
kCantonese cit3
kDefinition wagon ruts, wheel tracks
kEACC 275B54
kFourCornerCode 4854
kGB0 5362
kHanYu 53557.020
kIICore AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 53557.020
kIRGKangXi 1250.241
kIRG_GSource G0-555E
kTGH 2013:3339
kKangXi 1250.241
kMainlandTelegraph 6568
kMandarin zhé
kPhonetic 214*
kRSUnicode 159'.12
kTGHZ2013 470.040:zhé
kTotalStrokes 16
kTraditionalVariant "轍" U+8F4D CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 1464.060:zhé