U+6363 "捣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
捣
U+6363 "捣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to pound," "to beat," or "to smash," often used in the context of physically crushing or mixing ingredients, such as in cooking or medicine preparation. It also carries figurative meanings like "to disrupt" or "to cause trouble," appearing in words such as "捣乱" meaning "to disturb" or "make trouble." This character is composed of the radical 扌 (hand) on the left, indicating an action involving the hand, and the phonetic component 岛 (dǎo) on the right, which hints at its pronunciation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+6363 |
| 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 | 捣 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 捣 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0x8D 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x6363 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00006363 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u6363 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 274153 |
| kCangjie | QPYU |
| kCantonese | dou2 |
| kDefinition | hull; thresh; beat, attack |
| kEACC | 274153 |
| kFourCornerCode | 5702 |
| kGB0 | 2123 |
| kHanYu | 31887.020 |
| kHanyuPinlu | dǎo(23) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 31887.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0434.241 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3537 |
| kTGH | 2013:1811 |
| kKangXi | 0434.241 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 2281 |
| kMandarin | dǎo |
| kRSUnicode | 64.7 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 254.04 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 068.050:dǎo |
| kTotalStrokes | 10 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "搗" U+6417 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0219.010:dǎo |