U+968E "階" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
階
U+968E "階" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "stairs," "step," "rank," or "grade." In classical and modern East Asian languages including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, it conveys the concept of a physical staircase or a hierarchical level, such as a social rank or a stage in a process. The character is composed of the radical for "mound" or "hill" on the left side, suggesting elevation or a physical structure, and a phonetic component on the right that hints at its pronunciation, which is "jiē" in Mandarin. It appears frequently in terms related to architecture, social status, and sequential order, making it a versatile and commonly used ideograph across several Asian writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+968E |
| 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 | 階 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 階 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0x9A 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x968E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000968E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u968e |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B6A5 |
| kCCCII | 215F2C |
| kCNS1986 | 1-626A |
| kCNS1992 | 1-626A |
| kCangjie | NLPPA |
| kCantonese | gaai1 |
| kCihaiT | 1432.402 |
| kCowles | 1432 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1861.090 |
| kDefinition | stairs, steps; rank, degree |
| kEACC | 215F2C |
| kFanqie | 古諧 |
| kFenn | 318D |
| kFennIndex | 54.04 |
| kFourCornerCode | 7126.1 |
| kGB1 | 2955 |
| kGradeLevel | 4 |
| kGSR | 0599d |
| kHangul | 계:0E |
| kHanYu | 64143.040 |
| kHanyuPinlu | jiē(1888) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 64143.040:jiē |
| kHKGlyph | 4389 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1861.090 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 64143.040 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1357.090 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-3D57 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B6A5 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-332C |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-D3CF |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-4D2D |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-626A |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-6B36 |
| kJapanese | カイ きざはし しな はしご |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kJapaneseKun | KIZAHASHI HASHIGO SHINA |
| kJapaneseOn | KAI |
| kJis0 | 1912 |
| kKangXi | 1357.090 |
| kKarlgren | 364 |
| kKorean | KYEY |
| kLau | 790 |
| kMandarin | jiē |
| kMatthews | 625 |
| kMeyerWempe | 943 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ027650 |
| kMorohashi | 41755 |
| kNelson | 5011 |
| kPhonetic | 537 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1418+170.3.9 |
| kRSUnicode | 170.9 |
| kSBGY | 094.14 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+5826<kMatthews |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "阶" U+9636 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 754.02 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | jiē粵gaai1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 7132 |
| kTang | *gæi |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | giai |
| kXerox | 250:341 |
| kXHC1983 | 0575.061:jiē |