U+626B "扫" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
扫
U+626B "扫" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that fundamentally means "to sweep" or "to clear away." It is composed of the radical "扌" (hand) on the left, indicating an action performed with the hand, and the phonetic component "彐" on the right, which provides a clue to its pronunciation as "sǎo" or "sào" in Mandarin. This character is commonly used in words related to cleaning, such as "打扫" (to clean or sweep), as well as in broader contexts like "扫描" (to scan) and "扫除" (to eliminate or get rid of). In addition to its literal sense, it can carry metaphorical meanings, such as "扫兴" (to dampen one's spirits) or "扫盲" (to eliminate illiteracy), reflecting its versatile role in both everyday and formal Chinese vocabulary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+626B |
| 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 | 扫 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 扫 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0x89 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x626B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000626B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u626b |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 27407D |
| kCangjie | QSM |
| kCantonese | sou3 |
| kDefinition | sweep, clear away; exterminate |
| kEACC | 27407D |
| kFourCornerCode | 5707 |
| kGB0 | 4108 |
| kHanYu | 31831.110 |
| kHanyuPinlu | sǎo(121) sào(13) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 31831.110 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0418.141 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4928 |
| kTGH | 2013:365 |
| kKangXi | 0418.141 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 2217 |
| kMandarin | sǎo |
| kPhonetic | 81 |
| kRSUnicode | 64.3 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 241.06 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 321.050:sǎo 321.070:sào |
| kTotalStrokes | 6 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "掃" U+6383 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0988.060:sǎo 0989.040:sào |