U+97E8 "韨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+97E8 "韨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) historically used in Classical and literary Chinese texts. It refers to a type of ceremonial knee covering or apron worn in ancient Chinese court rituals, often associated with sacrificial or formal attire. The character is composed of the radical "韦" (leather) and the phonetic component "弗," suggesting its material and function in traditional dress. While it is not commonly used in modern standard Chinese, it appears in classical literature, historical records, and dictionaries as a specialized term for ancient regalia.

General Properties

Code Point	U+97E8
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	韨
HTML Hex Encoding	韨
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0x9F 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding	0x97E8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000097E8
C/C++/Java Escape	\u97e8

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	294E4C
kCangjie	QSIKE
kCantonese	fat1
kDefinition	a leather knee-pad worn during sacrifices
kFourCornerCode	5304.7
kGB8	9166
kHanYu	74504.060
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74504.060
kIRGKangXi	1396.031
kIRG_GSource	G8-7B62
kTGH	2013:6766
kKangXi	1396.031
kMainlandTelegraph	7280
kMandarin	fú
kRSUnicode	178'.5
kTGHZ2013	100.160:fú
kTotalStrokes	9
kTraditionalVariant	"韍" U+97CD CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0336.060:fú