U+8FB9 "边" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

边

U+8FB9 "边" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "side," "edge," "border," or "margin." It is a simplified form of the traditional character "邊," which carries the same meanings and is widely used in modern Mandarin Chinese. This character can be found in a variety of everyday contexts, such as in words like "旁边" (pángbiān, meaning "beside" or "nearby") and "边界" (biānjiè, meaning "boundary" or "frontier"). It is composed of the radical 辶 (walking or movement) and the phonetic component 力 (lì, meaning "strength"), though its pronunciation and meaning are not directly derived from those parts alone. As a common character in written Chinese, "边" plays a key role in expressing spatial relationships and geographical concepts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8FB9
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	边
HTML Hex Encoding	边
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0xBE 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8FB9
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008FB9
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8fb9

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	275C5B
kCNS1986	E-243B
kCNS1992	3-243B
kCangjie	YKS
kCantonese	bin1
kDaeJaweon	1735.080
kDefinition	edge, margin, side, border
kEACC	275C5B
kFennIndex	408.04
kFourCornerCode	3430
kGB0	1763
kHanYu	63815.060
kHanyuPinlu	biān(2050) bian(356)
kIICore	AG
kIRGDaeJaweon	1735.080
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	63815.060
kIRGKangXi	1253.131
kIRG_GSource	G0-315F
kIRG_HSource	H-9DA3
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-025757
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-7D35
kIRG_TSource	T3-243B
kJapanese	ヘン
kTGH	2013:337
kJapaneseKun	ATARI BE HOTORI
kJapaneseOn	HEN
kKangXi	1253.131
kKorean	PYEN
kMainlandTelegraph	6708
kMandarin	biān
kMatthews	5243
kMeyerWempe	2355
kMojiJoho	MJ025757
kMorohashi	38709
kPhonetic	896 1041
kRSUnicode	162.2
kSemanticVariant	U+908A<kMatthews,kMeyerWempe
kSimplifiedVariant	"边" U+8FB9 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	691.16
kTGHZ2013	020.140:biān
kTotalStrokes	5
kTraditionalVariant	"边" U+8FB9 CJK Unified Ideograph-# "邊" U+908A CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	GH
kXHC1983	0063.030:biān 0064.010:bian