U+624B "手" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
手
U+624B "手" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents the concept of "hand" and is used across multiple East Asian writing systems, including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. It is a common radical found in many other characters, often indicating actions or objects related to the hand, such as holding, grasping, or manual tasks. In its historical and calligraphic forms, the character evolved from pictographic origins that visually depicted a human hand with fingers. Today, it appears frequently in everyday vocabulary, from words like "shǒu" in Mandarin meaning hand to compounds such as 手機 (shǒujī) for mobile phone or 手紙 (tegami) in Japanese for letter.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+624B |
| 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 | 手 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 手 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0x89 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x624B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000624B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u624b |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A4E2 |
| kCCCII | 213F7A |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4543 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4543 |
| kCangjie | Q |
| kCantonese | sau2 |
| kCihaiT | 557.303 |
| kCowles | 3859 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0762.090 |
| kDefinition | hand |
| kEACC | 213F7A |
| kFanqie | 書九 |
| kFenn | 141A |
| kFennIndex | 458.03 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2050.0 |
| kGB0 | 4254 |
| kGB1 | 4254 |
| kGradeLevel | 1 |
| kGSR | 1101a |
| kHangul | 수:0E |
| kHanYu | 31824.010 |
| kHanyuPinlu | shǒu(2615) shou(12) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 31824.010:shǒu |
| kHDZRadBreak | ⼿[U+2F3F]:31824.010 |
| kHKGlyph | 1482 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0762.090 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 31824.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0416.280 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4A56 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A4E2 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3C6A |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E3E7 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6222 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4543 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-5646 |
| kJapanese | シュ シュウ て た |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:121 |
| kJapaneseKun | TE TEZUKARA |
| kJapaneseOn | SHU |
| kJis0 | 2874 |
| kKangXi | 0416.280 |
| kKorean | SWU |
| kLau | 2686 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 2087 |
| kMandarin | shǒu |
| kMatthews | 5838 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2648 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ012138 |
| kMorohashi | 11768 |
| kNelson | 1827 |
| kPhonetic | 1140 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2326+64.4.0 |
| kRSUnicode | 64.0 |
| kSBGY | 322.27 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+624C<kMatthews |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 239.06 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | shǒu粵sau2 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 2087 |
| kTang | *shiǒu |
| kTGHZ2013 | 339.020:shǒu |
| kTotalStrokes | 4 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | thủ |
| kXerox | 241:331 |
| kXHC1983 | 1057.030:shǒu |