U+99C8 "駈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
駈
U+99C8 "駈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that is primarily used in Japanese kanji, representing the concept of "running quickly" or "galloping," and it is a variant or simplified form of the character 驅 (qū) which means "to drive" or "to urge forward." This character consists of the radical for horse (馬) on the left and a phonetic component (区) on the right, and it appears in historical and modern contexts within Japanese writing, often in literary works or specialized vocabulary, though it is less common in simplified Chinese or traditional Chinese orthography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+99C8 |
| 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 | 駈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 駈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xA7 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x99C8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000099C8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u99c8 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 23526B |
| kCNS1986 | E-4F73 |
| kCNS1992 | 3-4F73 |
| kCangjie | SFOM |
| kCantonese | keoi1 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1960.090 |
| kDefinition | spur a horse on; expel, drive away |
| kEACC | 2D6147 |
| kFourCornerCode | 7231.1 |
| kHangul | 구:1 |
| kHanYu | 74548.070 |
| kIICore | AJ |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1960.090 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74548.070 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1435.230 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-5477 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-366F |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-897A |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-5A70 |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-4F73 |
| kJapanese | ク かける |
| kJinmeiyoKanji | 2010:U+99C6 |
| kJapaneseKun | KAKERU KARU |
| kJapaneseOn | KU |
| kJis0 | 2279 |
| kKangXi | 1435.230 |
| kKorean | KWU |
| kMandarin | qū |
| kMojiJoho | MJ028651 |
| kMorohashi | 44636 |
| kNelson | 5208 |
| kPhonetic | 1506 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1767+187.10.5 |
| kRSUnicode | 187.5 |
| kTotalStrokes | 15 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | J |