U+631D "挝" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+631D "挝" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily functions as a verb meaning to beat, strike, or hit, and it is also a component in the name of the country Laos (lǎo wō 老挝) as used in Chinese. In its historical usage, the character can refer to the action of flogging or physically assaulting someone, and it appears in various classical texts and modern vocabulary related to physical force or punishment. Structurally, it is composed of the radical for hand or action and a phonetic component, reflecting its semantic field of manual impact. While not among the most common characters in everyday modern Chinese, it remains a standard part of the writing system, particularly in formal or historical contexts and in geographical names.

General Properties

Code Point U+631D
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 挝
HTML Hex Encoding 挝
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE6 0x8C 0x9D
UTF-16 Encoding 0x631D
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000631D
C/C++/Java Escape \u631d

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

kCangjie QYDI
kCantonese zaa1
kDefinition to beat; to strike
kEACC 4C3474
kFourCornerCode 5403
kGB0 4646
kHanYu 31867.040
kIICore AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 31867.040
kIRGKangXi 0434.241
kIRG_GSource G0-4E4E
kTGH 2013:4095
kKangXi 0434.241
kMainlandTelegraph 2339
kMandarin
kRSUnicode 64.6
kSMSZD2003Index 252.08
kTGHZ2013 386.160:wō
kTotalStrokes 9
kTraditionalVariant "撾" U+64BE CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 1208.150:wō 1516.020:zhuā