U+8FB6 "辶" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8FB6 "辶" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a variant form of the Chinese radical "辵" (chuò), commonly known as the "walk" radical or "辶" (zǒuzhīr), which appears on the left side of many Chinese characters as a simplified component representing movement or walking. In modern standard Chinese, this radical is not typically used as a standalone character but is essential in composing compound characters such as 过 (guò, to pass) and 道 (dào, path or way), where it relates to concepts of motion, traveling, or progression. Its historical shape derives from a pictograph of a foot stepping forward, and it holds U+8FB6 as its designated codepoint in the Unicode Standard, reflecting its role in CJK unified ideographs for East Asian writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8FB6
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	辶
HTML Hex Encoding	辶
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0xBE 0xB6
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8FB6
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008FB6
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8fb6

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	293C6C
kCangjie	XY
kCantonese	caang1
kDaeJaweon	1735.020
kDefinition	walk; walking; Kangxi radical 162
kEACC	4D3C6C
kFennIndex	89.07
kFourCornerCode	3030
kGB0	6933
kGB1	6933
kHanYu	63815.011
kIRGDaeJaweon	1735.020
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	63815.011
kIRGKangXi	1253.111
kIRG_GSource	G0-6541
kIRG_HSource	H-9AA8
kIRG_JSource	J14-796A
kIRG_KSource	K2-654D
kIRG_TSource	T4-2154
kJapanese	チャク
kJIS0213	2,89,74
kJapaneseKun	SHINNYOU
kJapaneseOn	CHAKU
kJis1	6520
kKangXi	1253.111
kMandarin	chuò
kMatthews	1282
kMojiJoho	MJ025753 MJ030302:FE00 MJ030302:E0102 MJ025753:E0103 MJ058837:E0104
kMorohashi	38702 38702:E0103
kPhonetic	109
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+15184+162.4.0
kRSUnicode	162.0
kSemanticVariant	U+8FB5<kMatthews
kTotalStrokes	3
kUnihanCore2020	GH
kXerox	324:367