U+638C "掌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
掌
U+638C "掌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "palm," as in the palm of the hand, and is also used metaphorically to signify control, management, or mastery, such as in the word "掌握" meaning "to grasp" or "to be in charge of." Its visual composition includes the hand radical "手" at the top, beneath which is the phonetic component "尚," reflecting a combination of semantic and phonetic cues typical of many Han characters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+638C |
| 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 | 掌 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 掌 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0x8E 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x638C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000638C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u638c |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B478 |
| kCCCII | 214127 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5F3F |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5F3F |
| kCangjie | FBRQ |
| kCantonese | zoeng2 |
| kCihaiT | 579.302 |
| kCowles | 191 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0786.130 |
| kDefinition | palm of hand, sole of foot, paw |
| kEACC | 214127 |
| kFanqie | 諸兩 |
| kFenn | 587B |
| kFennIndex | 15.06 |
| kFourCornerCode | 9050.2 |
| kGB0 | 5338 |
| kGB1 | 5338 |
| kGradeLevel | 2 |
| kGSR | 0725j |
| kHangul | 장:0E |
| kHanYu | 31889.020 |
| kHanyuPinlu | zhǎng(279) zhang(14) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 31889.020:zhǎng |
| kHKGlyph | 1599 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0786.130 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 31889.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0437.050 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5546 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B478 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3E38 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E6E8 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6D66 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5F3F |
| kIRG_VSource | V2-8C4E |
| kJapanese | ショウ たなごころ つかさどる |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:2610 |
| kJapaneseKun | TANAGOKORO TSUKASADORU |
| kJapaneseOn | SHOU |
| kJis0 | 3024 |
| kKangXi | 0437.050 |
| kKorean | CANG |
| kLau | 1397 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 2222 |
| kMandarin | zhǎng |
| kMatthews | 203 |
| kMeyerWempe | 208 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ012465 |
| kMorohashi | 12248 |
| kNelson | 1366 |
| kPhonetic | 114 1167 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2464+64.4.8 |
| kRSUnicode | 64.8 |
| kSBGY | 311.27 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 255.09 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | zhǎng粵zoeng2 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 2222 |
| kTang | *jiɑ̌ng |
| kTGHZ2013 | 466.140:zhǎng |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kXerox | 246:307 |
| kXHC1983 | 1455.070:zhǎng |