U+620B "戋" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+620B "戋" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used in traditional and simplified writing, pronounced in Mandarin as “jiān.” It is a pictographic component and radical that originally depicted a small, narrow or meager line, often representing the idea of “a little bit,” “minute,” or “small” in compound characters. In modern usage, it appears infrequently as an independent word but serves as a semantic building block in more complex characters, such as those meaning “to cut” or “to reduce,” reflecting its historical association with diminutiveness or truncation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+620B
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	戋
HTML Hex Encoding	戋
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE6 0x88 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding	0x620B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000620B
C/C++/Java Escape	\u620b

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	282F47
kCangjie	XIJ
kCantonese	zin1
kDefinition	small, narrow, tiny, little
kEACC	282F47
kFourCornerCode	5300
kGB0	7407
kHanYu	21397.020
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	21397.020
kIRGKangXi	0411.031
kIRG_GSource	G0-6A27
kTGH	2013:6509
kKangXi	0411.031
kMainlandTelegraph	2055
kMandarin	jiān
kPhonetic	185
kRSUnicode	62.1
kSMSZD2003Index	234.13
kTGHZ2013	162.110:jiān
kTotalStrokes	5
kTraditionalVariant	"戔" U+6214 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0547.030:jiān