U+6316 "挖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
挖
U+6316 "挖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to dig," "to excavate," or "to scoop out," and it is commonly used in both modern and classical Chinese texts. Composed of the radical 扌 (hand) on the left and the phonetic component 穵 on the right, this logograph conveys the action of using one's hand or a tool to remove earth or other materials from a surface. In practical usage, it appears in words such as 挖掘 (wājué) meaning "to excavate" and 挖空 (wākōng) meaning "to hollow out."
General Properties
| Code Point | U+6316 |
| 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 | 挖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 挖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0x8C 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x6316 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00006316 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u6316 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | ABF5 |
| kCCCII | 214058 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5139 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5139 |
| kCangjie | QJCN |
| kCantonese | waat3 |
| kCihaiT | 575.301 |
| kCowles | 4983 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0780.180 |
| kDefinition | dig, dig out, gouge out, scoop |
| kEACC | 214058 |
| kFanqie | 烏八 |
| kFenn | 394C |
| kFennIndex | 589.05 |
| kFourCornerCode | 5301.7 |
| kGB0 | 4558 |
| kGB1 | 4558 |
| kGradeLevel | 5 |
| kHanYu | 31875.110 |
| kHanyuPinlu | wā(136) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 31875.110:wā |
| kHKGlyph | 1539 |
| kIICore | AGTHM |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0780.180 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 31875.110 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0431.130 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4D5A |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-ABF5 |
| kIRG_JSource | J1-3F62 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-45D4 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-3529 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5139 |
| kJapanese | アツ アチ ヤク おさえる |
| kTGH | 2013:1394 |
| kJapaneseKun | ABAKU |
| kJapaneseOn | ATSU ACHI |
| kJis1 | 3166 |
| kKangXi | 0431.130 |
| kLau | 3178 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 2177 |
| kMandarin | wā |
| kMatthews | 6999 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3715 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ012345 |
| kMorohashi | 12070 |
| kPhonetic | 1422 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+19389+64.3.6 |
| kRSUnicode | 64.6 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 251.03 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | wā粵waat3 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 2177 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 377.020:wā |
| kTotalStrokes | 9 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHMT |
| kXerox | 253:111 |
| kXHC1983 | 1176.050:wā |