U+519A "冚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
冚
U+519A "冚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily functions as a colloquial and dialectal variant of the more common character "蓋" or "蓋", meaning "to cover" or "to conceal". It is frequently used in Cantonese as a verb meaning "to cover up" or "to hide", and also appears in contexts such as "冚家", which denotes an entire family or household, often in a negative or derogatory sense. This character is composed of the radical "冖" (covering) and the phonetic component "巠", and while it is less common in formal Standard Mandarin texts, it retains significance in regional writing and informal usage, particularly within Hong Kong and Cantonese-speaking communities.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+519A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Block | CJK Unified Ideographs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 冚 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 冚 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x86 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x519A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000519A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u519a |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCangjie | BU |
| kCantonese | kam2 |
| kCheungBauer | 014/03;BU;ham6,kam2 |
| kCheungBauerIndex | 342.01 342.02 342.03 342.04 342.05 342.06 |
| kCowles | 1155 |
| kDefinition | (Cant.) cover, lid |
| kHanYu | 10303.020 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10303.020:kǎn |
| kIICore | BHM |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10303.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0130.161 |
| kIRG_GSource | GH-1204 |
| kIRG_HSource | H-9E52 |
| kKangXi | 0130.161 |
| kLau | 1653 |
| kMandarin | kǎn |
| kMeyerWempe | 776 |
| kPseudoGB1 | 9202 |
| kRSUnicode | 14.3 |
| kTotalStrokes | 5 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HM |