U+5F08 "弈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

弈
Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+5F08 "弈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that traditionally refers to the game of Go, a strategic board game known as *weiqi* in Chinese, as well as more broadly to chess or other board games involving pieces and a playing field. It is composed of two radicals: the top part "亦" contributes a phonetic element, while the bottom "廾" represents two hands, symbolizing the act of playing or handling game pieces. The character appears in various classical texts and remains in modern usage, often in formal or literary contexts, to denote the concept of playing a strategic game or to metaphorically describe a competitive situation requiring careful planning.

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General Properties

Code Point
U+5F08
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
弈
HTML Hex Encoding
弈
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE5 0xBC 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding
0x5F08
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00005F08
C/C++/Java Escape
\u5f08

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

kBigFive
ABD9
kCCCII
213D37
kCNS1986
1-507B
kCNS1992
1-507B
kCangjie
YCT
kCantonese
jik6
kCihaiT
498.504
kDaeJaweon
0669.150
kDefinition
Chinese chess
kEACC
213D37
kFanqie
羊益
kFennIndex
223.05
kFourCornerCode
0044.3
kGB0
6236
kGB1
6236
kGSR
0800f
kHangul
혁:1N
kHanYu
10517.020
kHanyuPinyin
10517.020:yì
kHKGlyph
1227
kIICore
AGTHM
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
10517.020
kIRG_GSource
G0-5E44
kIRG_HSource
HB1-ABD9
kIRG_JSource
J14-2C2D
kIRG_KPSource
KP1-4193
kIRG_KSource
K1-7347
kIRG_TSource
T1-507B
kJapanese
エキ ヤク
kKoreanName
2015
kTGH
2013:4305
kJIS0213
2,12,13
kJapaneseOn
EKI YAKU
kJis1
2863
kKangXi
0354.110
kKarlgren
187
kKorean
HYEK
kMainlandTelegraph
1704
kMandarin
yì
kMatthews
3023
kMeyerWempe
3905f
kMojiJoho
MJ011132
kMorohashi
09611
kPhonetic
1556
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+17607+55.3.6
kRSUnicode
55.6
kSBGY
517.06
kSemanticVariant
U+5955<kFenn
kSMSZD2003Index
205.13 15.15
kSMSZD2003Readings
yì粵jik6
kTaiwanTelegraph
1704
kTang
iɛk
kTGHZ2013
434.200:yì
kTotalStrokes
9
kUnihanCore2020
GHMT
kXerox
276:065
kXHC1983
1368.040:yì