U+8FAB "辫" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
辫
U+8FAB "辫" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that means a braid or plait of hair, and it is commonly used in compound words such as 辫子 (biàn zi) for a braid or pigtail. This character belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) Unified Ideographs block, which standardizes over 20,000 characters from East Asian languages. Its phonetic component suggests a pronunciation related to "bian" in Mandarin, while its semantic radical 纟 (silk thread) indicates a connection to weaving or binding, reflecting the intertwined nature of a braid. As a traditional character, it is frequently used in modern Chinese writing, particularly in contexts describing hairstyles, ropes, or anything twisted together.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8FAB |
| 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 | 辫 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 辫 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xBE 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8FAB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008FAB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8fab |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 27517A |
| kCangjie | YJVMJ |
| kCantonese | bin1 |
| kDefinition | braid; pigtail, plait, queue |
| kEACC | 27517A |
| kFourCornerCode | 0044 |
| kGB0 | 1772 |
| kHanYu | 64043.010 |
| kHanyuPinlu | biàn(55) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 64043.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1252.041 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3168 |
| kTGH | 2013:3426 |
| kKangXi | 1252.041 |
| kLau | 94 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 4947 |
| kMandarin | biàn |
| kRSUnicode | 160.10 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 022.040:biàn |
| kTotalStrokes | 17 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "辮" U+8FAE CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0066.010:biàn |