U+8E9E "" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+8E9E "" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a complex Chinese character that primarily means “to walk” or “to tread,” and it is often associated with the idea of moving or shuffling in a delicate or hesitant manner. This character is composed of the radical “足” meaning “foot,” indicating its connection to walking or stepping, combined with a phonetic component. While not commonly used in modern everyday Chinese, it appears in classical literature and historical texts, sometimes describing a person walking with a dignified or measured gait. Its pronunciation in standard Mandarin is “xiè,” and it serves as a rare but meaningful part of the broader CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideograph set, reflecting the rich lexical diversity of East Asian written languages.

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
躞
HTML Hex Encoding
躞
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE8 0xBA 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding
0x8E9E
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00008E9E
C/C++/Java Escape
\u8e9e

Unihan Properties

kBigFive
F8C3
kCCCII
233A64
kCNS1986
2-7051
kCNS1992
2-7051
kCangjie
RMFFE
kCantonese
sip3
kCihaiT
1295.402
kDaeJaweon
1708.370
kDefinition
to walk
kEACC
233A64
kFanqie
蘇協
kFourCornerCode
6014.7
kGB0
8583
kGB1
8583
kHangul
섭:N
kHanYu
63750.040
kHanyuPinyin
63750.040:xiè
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
63750.040
kIRG_GSource
G0-7573
kIRG_HSource
HB2-F8C3
kIRG_JSource
J14-7953
kIRG_KPSource
KP1-7BCF
kIRG_KSource
K2-644C
kIRG_TSource
T2-7051
kJapanese
ショウ
kKoreanName
2015
kTGH
2013:6488
kJIS0213
2,89,51
kJapaneseKun
YUKU
kJapaneseOn
SHOU
kJis1
6442
kKangXi
1236.160
kKorean
SEP
kMainlandTelegraph
9351
kMandarin
xiè
kMatthews
2656
kMojiJoho
MJ025489
kMorohashi
37997
kPhonetic
1217
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+18742+157.7.17
kRSUnicode
157.17
kSBGY
542.24
kSMSZD2003Index
683.03
kSMSZD2003Readings
xiè粵sip3,sit3
kTaiwanTelegraph
9279
kTGHZ2013
406.240:xiè
kTotalStrokes
24
kUnihanCore2020
GHMT
kXerox
307:076
kXHC1983
1276.070:xiè