U+638A "掊" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

掊

U+638A "掊" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily used in historical and literary contexts, with its core meanings relating to the actions of "to scoop up" or "to dig out" using a tool, often a hand or an implement like a shovel. It can also denote the concept of "to strike" or "to beat" in certain classical texts, such as in the context of threshing grain. In modern usage, the character is relatively uncommon and appears more frequently in traditional Chinese literature, classical poetry, or specialized lexicons rather than in everyday language. Its structure combines the hand radical (扌) on the left, suggesting an action performed by hand, with the phonetic component 咅, which hints at its pronunciation in Mandarin as either "póu" or "pǒu" depending on the specific meaning.

General Properties

Code Point	U+638A
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	掊
HTML Hex Encoding	掊
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE6 0x8E 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding	0x638A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000638A
C/C++/Java Escape	\u638a

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

kBigFive	D568
kCCCII	223166
kCNS1986	2-354C
kCNS1992	2-354C
kCangjie	QYTR
kCantonese	pau2
kCihaiT	579.301
kDaeJaweon	0786.080
kDefinition	to extract; injure
kEACC	3F404F
kFanqie	薄交縛謀薄侯方垢
kFourCornerCode	5006.1
kGB0	6269
kGB1	6269
kGSR	0999d'
kHangul	부:1N
kHanYu	31904.050
kHanyuPinyin	31904.050:póu,pǒu,fù,péi
kIRGDaeJaweon	0786.080
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	31904.050
kIRGKangXi	0437.010
kIRG_GSource	G0-5E65
kIRG_HSource	HB2-D568
kIRG_JSource	J1-4028
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-462E
kIRG_KSource	K1-6237
kIRG_TSource	T2-354C
kJapanese	ホウビョウフホクボクハイベうつかく
kKoreanName	2015
kTGH	2013:4735
kJapaneseKun	KAKU
kJapaneseOn	HOU BU FUU
kJis1	3208
kKangXi	0437.010
kKorean	PWU
kMainlandTelegraph	2221
kMandarin	póu
kMatthews	5359
kMeyerWempe	2299a
kMojiJoho	MJ012463
kMorohashi	12244
kPhonetic	1028
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+19399+64.3.8
kRSUnicode	64.8
kSBGY	154.27 211.27 215.30 326.36
kSMSZD2003Index	255.08
kSMSZD2003Readings	pǒu粵pau2 póu粵pau4
kTaiwanTelegraph	2221
kTGHZ2013	288.010:póu 288.030:pǒu
kTotalStrokes	11
kUnihanCore2020	GHMT
kXerox	277:322
kXHC1983	0887.060:póu 0887.080:pǒu