U+62E3 "拣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+62E3 "拣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character historically derived from an ideographic root that combines a hand or action component with a phonetic element, and it primarily means "to choose," "to select," or "to pick out" in modern Mandarin. This character is commonly used in everyday contexts such as "拣选" for selection or sorting, and it also appears in phrases relating to picking up or gathering items. It is encoded in the CJK Unified Ideographs block of Unicode to represent this meaning across digital text, ensuring consistent representation in East Asian scripts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+62E3
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	拣
HTML Hex Encoding	拣
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE6 0x8B 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding	0x62E3
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000062E3
C/C++/Java Escape	\u62e3

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	27413C
kCangjie	QKVC
kCantonese	gaan2
kDefinition	choose; select; pick up; gather
kEACC	27413C
kFourCornerCode	5509
kGB0	2880
kHanYu	31851.010
kHanyuPinlu	jiǎn(84)
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	31851.010
kIRGKangXi	0427.161
kIRG_GSource	G0-3C70
kTGH	2013:961
kKangXi	0427.161
kMainlandTelegraph	2245
kMandarin	jiǎn
kPhonetic	549*
kRSUnicode	64.5
kSMSZD2003Index	249.15
kTGHZ2013	164.030:jiǎn
kTotalStrokes	8
kTraditionalVariant	"揀" U+63C0 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0552.060:jiǎn