U+4DD4 "䷔" Hexagram for Biting Through Unicode Character

U+4DD4 "䷔" Hexagram for Biting Through is one of the 64 hexagrams in the ancient Chinese divination text, the I Ching or Book of Changes, specifically representing the 21st hexagram, Shi He. This symbol, composed of a solid and broken line pattern, signifies a state of obstruction or tension that requires decisive action, much like the act of biting through a hard substance to separate or resolve it. It traditionally conveys themes of judicial punishment, overcoming obstacles through direct confrontation, and the necessary use of force or clarity to bring about justice and understanding. In the context of modern computing, this character belongs to the CJK Unified Ideographs block in Unicode, allowing it to be encoded, displayed, and used in digital texts for scholarly, philosophical, or decorative purposes.

General Properties

Code Point	U+4DD4
Version Added	4.0
Name	Hexagram for Biting Through
Block	Yijing Hexagram Symbols
General Category	Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	䷔
HTML Hex Encoding	䷔
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE4 0xB7 0x94
UTF-16 Encoding	0x4DD4
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00004DD4
C/C++/Java Escape	\u4dd4

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	Alphabetic
East Asian Width	Wide
Script	Common
Script Extensions	Common
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other