U+629E "択" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+629E "択" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) and Japanese kanji that primarily conveys the meaning of "choose," "select," or "pick." It is a simplified form used in Japanese writing, corresponding to the traditional Chinese character "擇" (zé) in standard Chinese, though in modern Simplified Chinese the equivalent character is "择." The character is composed of the radical for hand or action (扌 on the left) combined with a phonetic component on the right, reflecting its semantic connection to the physical act of selection. In Japanese, it frequently appears in words such as 選択 (sentaku, meaning "choice" or "selection") and is a common element in both everyday vocabulary and technical contexts like computing or decision-making processes.

General Properties

Code Point U+629E
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 択
HTML Hex Encoding 択
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE6 0x8A 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding 0x629E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000629E
C/C++/Java Escape \u629e

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 33417E
kCNS1986 E-2631
kCNS1992 3-2631
kCangjie QSO
kCantonese zaak6
kDaeJaweon 0770.100
kDefinition select, choose, pick out
kEACC 33417E
kFourCornerCode 5708.7
kHanYu 31844.061
kIICore AJ
kIRGDaeJaweon 0770.100
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 31844.061
kIRGKangXi 0422.121
kIRG_GSource GE-3A26
kIRG_JSource J0-4272
kIRG_KPSource KP1-455F
kIRG_KSource K2-345D
kIRG_TSource T3-2631
kIRG_VSource V3-3155
kJapanese タク ジャク えらぶ
kJoyoKanji 2010
kJapaneseKun ERABU
kJapaneseOn TAKU
kJis0 3482
kKangXi 0422.121
kKorean THAYK
kMandarin
kMojiJoho MJ012226
kMorohashi 11902'
kNelson 1845
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+2898+64.3.4
kRSUnicode 64.4
kTotalStrokes 7
kUnihanCore2020 J