U+593B "夻" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+593B "夻" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare Chinese character that is not commonly used in modern standard Mandarin, but it appears in historical texts and variant character sets, where it is pronounced similarly to "hua" or "gua" in some contexts. Its composition combines the "big" radical 大 on top with the "mouth" radical 口 below, and it is sometimes associated with the meaning of "big mouth" or "greedy eating," reflecting a literal depiction of a large opening. This character also serves as a variant form for certain other CJK characters, making it relevant for scholars of ancient Chinese scripts and typography.

General Properties

Code Point	U+593B
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	夻
HTML Hex Encoding	夻
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0xA4 0xBB
UTF-16 Encoding	0x593B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000593B
C/C++/Java Escape	\u593b

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	XKR
kCantonese	ng4
kDaeJaweon	0509.150
kDefinition	fish name
kHanYu	10528.021
kIRGDaeJaweon	0509.150
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10528.021
kIRGKangXi	0250.071
kIRG_GSource	GK-6867
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-3940
kIRG_KSource	K2-2B52
kKangXi	0250.071
kKorean	KWU
kMandarin	huà
kPseudoGB1	9377
kRSUnicode	37.3 30.3
kTotalStrokes	6