U+62E8 "拨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+62E8 "拨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to push aside," "to dial," "to allocate," or "to stir," depending on context. It combines the radical 扌 (hand) with the phonetic component 发 (fā), indicating a hand movement that involves shifting or distributing something. Commonly used in words like 拨号 (bōhào, "to dial a number") and 拨款 (bōkuǎn, "to allocate funds"), this character frequently appears in modern Chinese for actions involving manual adjustment, redirection, or the dispersal of resources.

General Properties

Code Point	U+62E8
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	拨
HTML Hex Encoding	拨
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE6 0x8B 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding	0x62E8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000062E8
C/C++/Java Escape	\u62e8

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	274166
kCangjie	QIVE
kCantonese	but6
kDefinition	move; dispel; distribute
kEACC	274166
kFourCornerCode	5304
kGB0	1806
kHanYu	31862.010
kHanyuPinlu	bō(66)
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	31862.010
kIRGKangXi	0427.161
kIRG_GSource	G0-3226
kIRG_VSource	V1-5669
kTGH	2013:991
kKangXi	0427.161
kKorean	PAL PHAY
kMainlandTelegraph	2328
kMandarin	bō
kPhonetic	346*
kRSUnicode	64.5
kSMSZD2003Index	249.09
kTGHZ2013	025.160:bō
kTotalStrokes	8
kTraditionalVariant	"撥" U+64A5 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0080.050:bō