U+3C40 "㱀" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

The Unicode character 3C40 "㱀" Private Use Area is a reserved code point within the Unicode standard that does not represent a specific, universally defined character or glyph. Instead, it is part of the CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A block designated for private or custom use, meaning that software, font designers, or individuals can assign their own meaning or symbol to this code point for specialized applications, such as in corporate fonts, custom symbols and emojis, internal text encoding, or legacy systems. Because its appearance and function are entirely dependent on the private conventions adopted by a particular user or developer, the character has no guaranteed representation across different platforms or devices, and its use outside of that private context can lead to missing or incorrectly displayed text.

General Properties

Code Point U+3C40
Version Added 3.0
Name CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Block CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 㱀
HTML Hex Encoding 㱀
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE3 0xB1 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding 0x3C40
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00003C40
C/C++/Java Escape \u3c40

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

kCangjie PUNO
kCantonese zyut3
kDefinition (same as 欼) to bite; to gnaw, (same as 嘬) to swallow a big mouthful without mastication
kFanqie 初紀
kHanYu 32148.080
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 32148.080
kIRGKangXi 0571.030
kIRG_GSource GKX-0571.03
kIRG_JSource JMJ-001922
kIRG_KSource K3-2859
kIRG_TSource T6-5D77
kJapanese
kKangXi 0571.030
kMandarin chǐ
kMojiJoho MJ001922
kMorohashi 16163
kRSUnicode 76.10
kSBGY 254.23
kTotalStrokes 14