U+8FBA "辺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8FBA "辺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that also serves as a simplified form of the traditional character "邊" in Japanese and Korean usage, where it commonly means "side," "margin," "edge," or "boundary." In Japanese, it is particularly well known as the second character in the word "funaben" (船辺) meaning "waterside," but more famously, it appears in the common Japanese surname "Watanabe" (渡辺), one of the most frequent family names in Japan. The character is encoded in the CJK Unified Ideographs block and is widely used in East Asian texts to denote a peripheral or bordering area, often carrying spatial or positional meanings in compound words.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8FBA
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	辺
HTML Hex Encoding	辺
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0xBE 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8FBA
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008FBA
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8fba

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	275C36
kCangjie	YSH
kCantonese	dou6
kCowles	3287
kDaeJaweon	1735.090
kDefinition	edge, margin, side, border
kEACC	4B5C5B
kFourCornerCode	3730.2
kHanYu	63815.051
kIICore	AJ
kIRGDaeJaweon	1735.090
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	63815.051
kIRGKangXi	1253.131
kIRG_GSource	GE-4F29
kIRG_HSource	H-9DA1
kIRG_JSource	J0-4A55
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-7D34
kIRG_KSource	K2-654F
kJapanese	ヘン あたり べ ほとり
kJoyoKanji	2010
kJapaneseKun	ATARI BE HOTORI
kJapaneseOn	HEN
kJis0	4253
kKangXi	1253.131
kKorean	PYEN
kMandarin	biān
kMojiJoho	MJ025758 MJ025758:E0101 MJ025759:E0102
kMorohashi	38710' 38710':E0101 38710:E0102
kNelson	4661
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+3621+18.2.3 C+3621+162.3.2
kRSUnicode	162.2
kTotalStrokes	5
kUnihanCore2020	HJ