U+637E "捾" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+637E "捾" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that primarily functions as a verb meaning to scoop out or to gouge, often used in contexts involving digging or hollowing an object with a tool or hand. It belongs to the radical "扌" (hand) and has a total of 11 strokes, with its phonetic component suggesting a relationship to the sound "huō" or "wò" in Mandarin. Historically, this character appears in classical Chinese texts and is occasionally found in modern usage, though it remains relatively uncommon compared to more standard variants for similar actions.

General Properties

Code Point U+637E
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 捾
HTML Hex Encoding 捾
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE6 0x8D 0xBE
UTF-16 Encoding 0x637E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000637E
C/C++/Java Escape \u637e

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 22316F
kCNS1986 E-357C
kCNS1992 3-357C
kCangjie QJRR
kCantonese wut6
kCihaiT 578.502
kDaeJaweon 0785.160
kFanqie 烏括
kGB3 4259
kHanYu 31906.080
kHanyuPinyin 31906.080:wò,xiá
kIRGDaeJaweon 0785.160
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 31906.080
kIRGKangXi 0436.030
kIRG_GSource G3-4A5B
kIRG_JSource JMJ-012450
kIRG_KPSource KP1-4658
kIRG_TSource T3-357C
kJapanese ワツ ワチ アツ エチ カツ ゲチ ワン
kKangXi 0436.030
kMandarin
kMojiJoho MJ012450
kMorohashi 12226
kRSUnicode 64.8
kSBGY 486.45
kTotalStrokes 11