U+908E "邎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+908E "邎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and complex Chinese character that is not commonly used in modern standard Mandarin or Japanese. Its structure combines the radical for movement or walking (辶) with the phonetic component 由 (yóu), though the exact meaning is obscure and often listed as archaic or variant in classical texts. Historical dictionary entries suggest it was occasionally used as a variant for characters related to “going” or “leading,” but it lacks a clear, widely recognized definition in contemporary usage and is primarily of interest to paleographers or specialists studying ancient Chinese inscriptions.

General Properties

Code Point	U+908E
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	邎
HTML Hex Encoding	邎
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0x82 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding	0x908E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000908E
C/C++/Java Escape	\u908e

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	233E3C
kCangjie	YBRF
kCantonese	jau4
kDaeJaweon	1766.220
kFanqie	以周
kHanYu	63896.090
kIRGDaeJaweon	1766.220
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	63896.090
kIRGKangXi	1267.290
kIRG_GSource	GE-4F52
kIRG_JSource	J1-616B
kIRG_TSource	T4-6952
kJapanese	ホウ
kJapaneseOn	YUU
kJis1	6575
kKangXi	1267.290
kMandarin	yáo
kMojiJoho	MJ026216 MJ026216:E0101 MJ026215:E0102
kMorohashi	39250 39250:E0101
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+22677+162.4.18
kRSUnicode	162.17
kTotalStrokes	21