U+593E "夾" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+593E "夾" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that means "to press from both sides," "to insert," or "to carry under the arm," and it is composed of a person figure flanked by two smaller elements, visually suggesting the concept of being squeezed or supported by two sides. It appears in various East Asian languages, including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, and has a simplified form known as "夹" in modern Chinese. Historically, it has been used in classical texts to denote actions like clamping or wedging, as well as metaphorical meanings such as being caught between two forces or holding an object close to the body.

General Properties

Code Point U+593E
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 夾
HTML Hex Encoding 夾
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0xA4 0xBE
UTF-16 Encoding 0x593E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000593E
C/C++/Java Escape \u593e

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

kBigFive A7A8
kCCCII 21392E
kCNS1986 1-4968
kCNS1992 1-4968
kCangjie KOO
kCantonese gaap3
kCihaiT 369.601
kCowles 1485
kDaeJaweon 0509.200
kDefinition be wedged or inserted between
kEACC 21392E
kFanqie 古洽
kFenn 455B
kFennIndex 42.02
kFourCornerCode 4003.8
kGB1 2848
kGradeLevel 5
kGSR 0630a
kHangul 협:0N
kHanYu 10529.180
kHanyuPinlu jiā(95) jiá(23)
kHanyuPinyin 10529.180:jiā,jiá,xié,xiá,gā
kHKGlyph 0845
kIICore ATJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon 0509.200
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10529.180
kIRGKangXi 0250.100
kIRG_GSource G1-3C50
kIRG_HSource HB1-A7A8
kIRG_JSource J0-5473
kIRG_KPSource KP0-F3D5
kIRG_KSource K0-7A71
kIRG_TSource T1-4968
kIRG_VSource V1-514F
kJapanese キョウ コウ はさむ
kKoreanName 2015
kJapaneseKun HASAMU
kJapaneseOn KOU KYOU
kJis0 5283
kKangXi 0250.100
kKarlgren 345
kKorean HYEP
kLau 815
kMandarin jiā
kMatthews 611
kMeyerWempe 982
kMojiJoho MJ009472
kMorohashi 05867
kNelson 0192
kPhonetic 550
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+4548+37.3.4
kRSUnicode 37.4
kSBGY 543.23
kSimplifiedVariant "夹" U+5939 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index 148.09 26.11
kSMSZD2003Readings jiā粵gaap3 jiá粵gaap3 gā粵gaap3
kTaiwanTelegraph 1140
kTang *gæp
kTotalStrokes 7
kUnihanCore2020 HJKMPT
kVietnamese giáp
kXerox 251:300
kXHC1983 0349.011:gā 0539.031:jiā 0541.131:jiá