This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Han script. The Unihan Database defines it as a bamboo basket for food containers (such as cup; plate; dish and bowl, etc.) used in ancient times, a basket for chopsticks, bamboo basket used to filter or to strain out the wine, a sail made of a thin and long strip of bamboo. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is gòng.
The glyph is not a composition. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+41E8 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.
Representations
System
Representation (click value to copy)
Nº
16872
UTF-8
E4 87 A8
UTF-16
41 E8
UTF-32
00 00 41 E8
URL-Quoted
%E4%87%A8
HTML hex reference
䇨
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake
䇨
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)
82 32 D7 33
Pīnyīn
gòng
RFC 5137
\u'41E8'
Bash and Zsh inside echo -e
\u41E8
C and C++
\u41E8
C#
\u41E8
CSS
\0041E8
Excel
=UNICHAR(16872)
Go
\u41E8
JavaScript
\u41E8
Modern JavaScript since ES6
\u{41e8}
JSON
\u41E8
Java
\u41E8
Lua
\u{41E8}
Matlab
char(16872)
Perl
"\x{41E8}"
PHP
\u{41e8}
PostgreSQL
U&'\41E8'
PowerShell
`u{41E8}
Python
\u41E8
Ruby
\u{41e8}
Rust
\u{41e8}
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a bamboo basket for food containers (such as cup; plate; dish and bowl, etc.) used in ancient times, a basket for chopsticks, bamboo basket used to filter or to strain out the wine, a sail made of a thin and long strip of bamboo