U+31CA "㇊" CJK Stroke Hzt Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㇊
U+31CA "㇊" CJK Stroke Hzt is part of the CJK Strokes block and represents a specific stroke used in Chinese character writing, known as the "horizontal zigzag" or "horizontal turning stroke." This stroke is a variant of the basic horizontal stroke that includes a distinct bend or fold, commonly appearing in complex characters to depict a change in direction within a single continuous line. Its inclusion in Unicode helps standardize the representation of these stroke components for digital text, calligraphy education, and linguistic analysis of East Asian scripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+31CA |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | CJK Stroke Hzt |
| Block | CJK Strokes |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㇊ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㇊ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x87 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x31CA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000031CA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u31ca |