U+631F "挟" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

挟

U+631F "挟" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character meaning to clasp under the arm, to hold between the fingers, to coerce, or to harbor resentment. In modern usage, it appears in various compounds such as 挟持 (to coerce or hold hostage) and 挟带 (to carry under one's arm or to smuggle), and it is composed of the hand radical 扌 alongside combined phonetic and semantic elements that evoke the act of grasping or pressing from both sides. This character is used across multiple East Asian writing systems, including Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, and Japanese Kanji, where it carries similar meanings related to physical holding or figurative pressure. As a CJK Unified Ideograph, it is encoded in the Unicode standard to represent this specific written form for digital text processing.

General Properties

Code Point	U+631F
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	挟
HTML Hex Encoding	挟
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE6 0x8C 0x9F
UTF-16 Encoding	0x631F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000631F
C/C++/Java Escape	\u631f

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	27406C
kCNS1986	E-2C6B
kCNS1992	3-2C6B
kCangjie	QKT
kCantonese	hip3
kDefinition	clasp under arm; hold to bosom
kEACC	27406C
kFourCornerCode	5503.0
kGB0	4814
kHanYu	31868.090
kHanyuPinlu	xié(11)
kIICore	AGJ
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	31868.090
kIRGKangXi	0431.171
kIRG_GSource	G0-502E
kIRG_JSource	J0-3634
kIRG_TSource	T3-2C6B
kJapanese	キョウコウショウソウはさむはさまるさしはさむ
kJoyoKanji	2010
kTGH	2013:1374
kJapaneseKun	HASAMU
kJapaneseOn	KYOU SHOU
kJis0	2220
kKangXi	0431.171
kMainlandTelegraph	2188
kMandarin	xié
kMojiJoho	MJ012349
kPhonetic	550*
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+1708+64.3.6
kRSUnicode	64.6
kSimplifiedVariant	"挟" U+631F CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	252.05
kTGHZ2013	405.030:xié
kTotalStrokes	9
kTraditionalVariant	"挟" U+631F CJK Unified Ideograph-# "挾" U+633E CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	GJ
kXHC1983	0539.032:jiā 1274.050:xié