U+62EE "拮" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

拮

U+62EE "拮" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily functions as a verb and carries the meaning of "to be hard pressed" or "to be in straitened circumstances," often appearing in the compound word "拮据" (jiéjū), which describes financial difficulty or a state of being short of money. It consists of the radical "扌" (hand) on the left and the phonetic component "吉" (jí) on the right, indicating its classification as a phono-semantic compound. This character is used in both Traditional and Simplified Chinese writing systems, though it is more commonly encountered in literary or formal contexts rather than everyday conversation. Its historical usage can be traced back to classical texts, where it originally conveyed a sense of laboring under pressure or being constrained, linking it to themes of hardship and limited resources.

General Properties

Code Point	U+62EE
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	拮
HTML Hex Encoding	拮
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE6 0x8B 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding	0x62EE
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000062EE
C/C++/Java Escape	\u62ee

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

kBigFive	ABFA
kCCCII	21405E
kCNS1986	1-513E
kCNS1992	1-513E
kCangjie	QGR
kCantonese	git3
kCihaiT	572.302
kCowles	1562
kDaeJaweon	0776.180
kDefinition	laboring hard, occupied; pursue
kEACC	21405E
kFanqie	居質古屑
kFourCornerCode	5406.1
kGB0	6255
kGB1	6255
kGSR	0393n
kHangul	길:0N
kHanYu	31866.030
kHanyuPinyin	31866.030:jié,jiá
kHKGlyph	1545
kIICore	AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	0776.180
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	31866.030
kIRGKangXi	0427.210
kIRG_GSource	G0-5E57
kIRG_HSource	HB1-ABFA
kIRG_JSource	J0-5949
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-D2FA
kIRG_KSource	K0-514F
kIRG_TSource	T1-513E
kIRG_VSource	V0-373A
kJapanese	キツケチキチケツカツ
kKoreanName	2015
kTGH	2013:4093
kJapaneseKun	HATARAKU
kJapaneseOn	KITSU KETSU KATSU
kJis0	5741
kKangXi	0427.210
kKorean	KIL KYEL
kMainlandTelegraph	2159
kMandarin	jié
kMatthews	780
kMeyerWempe	1058a
kMojiJoho	MJ012298
kMorohashi	11990
kNelson	1894
kPhonetic	582
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+4976+64.3.6
kRSUnicode	64.6
kSBGY	469.12 491.54
kSMSZD2003Index	249.21
kSMSZD2003Readings	jié粵git3
kTaiwanTelegraph	2159
kTGHZ2013	173.050:jié
kTotalStrokes	9
kUnihanCore2020	GHJKMPT
kVietnamese	cất
kXerox	267:312
kXHC1983	0576.120:jié