U+8FBD "辽" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
辽
U+8FBD "辽" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily used as an abbreviation for the historical Liao dynasty, which ruled parts of northern China, Mongolia, and Manchuria from 907 to 1125. It also serves as a geographic shorthand for the Liaoning province in northeastern China and appears in the name of the Liao River that flows through the region. In modern contexts, it is a common component in written Chinese for place names and historical references, reflecting its roots in classical literary and administrative usage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8FBD |
| 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 | 辽 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 辽 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xBE 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8FBD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008FBD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8fbd |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 275C52 |
| kCangjie | YNN |
| kCantonese | liu4 |
| kDefinition | distant, far |
| kEACC | 275C52 |
| kFourCornerCode | 3730 |
| kGB0 | 3341 |
| kHanYu | 63815.040 |
| kHanyuPinlu | liáo(32) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 63815.040 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1253.131 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4149 |
| kTGH | 2013:331 |
| kKangXi | 1253.131 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 6697 |
| kMandarin | liáo |
| kPhonetic | 817 |
| kRSUnicode | 162.2 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 691.17 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 222.060:liáo |
| kTotalStrokes | 5 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "遼" U+907C CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0711.100:liáo |