U+62A4 "护" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
护
U+62A4 "护" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to protect" or "to guard", often conveying the sense of shielding someone or something from harm, danger, or loss. It is composed of the radical 扌 (hand) on the left, indicating an action, and the phonetic component 户 on the right, which also suggests a door or household, symbolizing the idea of defending a home or boundary. This character appears frequently in everyday Chinese vocabulary, such as in 保护 (bǎohù, meaning "to protect") and 护士 (hùshi, meaning "nurse"), reflecting its fundamental role in expressing care, safety, and guardianship in both formal and informal contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+62A4 |
| 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 | 护 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 护 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0x8A 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x62A4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000062A4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u62a4 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 275948 |
| kCangjie | QIS |
| kCantonese | wu6 |
| kDefinition | protect, guard, defend, shelter |
| kEACC | 275948 |
| kFourCornerCode | 5300 |
| kGB0 | 2704 |
| kHanYu | 31844.030 |
| kHanyuPinlu | hù(468) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 31844.030 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0422.121 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3B24 |
| kIRG_HSource | H-93B0 |
| kIRG_TSource | TF-2439 |
| kTGH | 2013:649 |
| kKangXi | 0422.121 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 6233 |
| kMandarin | hù |
| kPhonetic | 1454 1462 |
| kRSUnicode | 64.4 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 245.06 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 141.180:hù |
| kTotalStrokes | 7 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "護" U+8B77 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GH |
| kXHC1983 | 0476.060:hù |