U+593A "夺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+593A "夺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily meaning "to seize," "to take by force," or "to contend for," and it is a simplified form of its traditional counterpart "奪." In modern usage, it appears in common words like "争夺" (to vie for) or "夺取" (to capture), and its composition visually suggests a bird (隹) being grasped, reflecting the idea of snatching something away. As a core component in written Chinese, it conveys themes of competition, acquisition, or forcible change, and it is used across various contexts from daily language to formal literature.

General Properties

Code Point	U+593A
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	夺
HTML Hex Encoding	夺
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0xA4 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding	0x593A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000593A
C/C++/Java Escape	\u593a

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

kCCCII	273940
kCangjie	KDI
kCantonese	dyut6
kDefinition	take by force, rob, snatch
kEACC	273940
kFourCornerCode	4034
kGB0	2265
kHanYu	10527.010
kHanyuPinlu	duó(197)
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10527.010
kIRGKangXi	0250.071
kIRG_GSource	G0-3661
kTGH	2013:396
kKangXi	0250.071
kMainlandTelegraph	1161
kMandarin	duó
kPhonetic	277* 1388A*
kRSUnicode	37.3
kSMSZD2003Index	148.03 173.08
kTGHZ2013	084.130:duó
kTotalStrokes	6
kTraditionalVariant	"奪" U+596A CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0280.090:duó