U+95F8 "闸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+95F8 "闸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character representing a sluice gate, brake, or barrier, commonly used in modern and classical written Chinese. Its structure combines the radical 门 (gate, door) on the outside with the phonetic component 甲 inside, reflecting its meaning of a device that controls flow or movement, such as a water gate or a mechanical brake in vehicles. This character appears in terms like 闸门 (sluice gate) and 刹车 (brake), and is integral to vocabulary related to engineering, hydraulics, and transportation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+95F8
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	闸
HTML Hex Encoding	闸
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0x97 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding	0x95F8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000095F8
C/C++/Java Escape	\u95f8

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	275E57
kCangjie	LSWL
kCantonese	zaap6
kDefinition	sluice; flood gate, canal lock
kEACC	275E57
kFourCornerCode	3750
kGB0	5302
kHanYu	74292.100
kHanyuPinlu	zhá(20)
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74292.100
kIRGKangXi	1343.121
kIRG_GSource	G0-5522
kTGH	2013:1227
kKangXi	1343.121
kMainlandTelegraph	7037
kMandarin	zhá
kPhonetic	551*
kRSUnicode	169'.5
kTGHZ2013	462.090:zhá
kTotalStrokes	8
kTraditionalVariant	"閘" U+9598 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	1447.160:zhá