U+6398 "掘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
掘
U+6398 "掘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily meaning "to dig" or "to excavate," commonly used in words related to digging into the earth, such as 挖掘 (wājué), which translates to "excavation" or "to unearth." It is built from the radical 扌, indicating an action involving the hand, combined with the phonetic component 屈, which suggests a bending or curving motion. This character appears in various contexts, including archaeology, mining, and figurative expressions like 发掘 (fājué), meaning "to discover or unearth something hidden." In Japanese, it is read as "horu" in kun'yomi and "kutsu" in on'yomi, retaining a similar semantic range.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+6398 |
| 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 | 掘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 掘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0x8E 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x6398 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00006398 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u6398 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B1B8 |
| kCCCII | 214122 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5A5C |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5A5C |
| kCangjie | QSUU |
| kCantonese | gwat6 |
| kCihaiT | 580.402 |
| kCowles | 730 2086 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0787.100 |
| kDefinition | dig, excavate; excavate cave |
| kEACC | 214122 |
| kFanqie | 衢物 其月 |
| kFenn | 666E |
| kFennIndex | 121.05 |
| kFourCornerCode | 5707.2 |
| kGB0 | 3082 |
| kGB1 | 3082 |
| kGradeLevel | 2 |
| kGSR | 0496s |
| kHangul | 굴:0N |
| kHanYu | 31909.020 |
| kHanyuPinlu | jué(11) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 31909.020:jué,kū |
| kHKGlyph | 1580 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0787.100 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 31909.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0438.020 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3E72 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B1B8 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3721 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-D1C6 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-4F5E |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5A5C |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-573A |
| kJapanese | クツ グチ ケツ ガチ コツ ゴチ セツ ほる |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:2190 |
| kJapaneseKun | HORU |
| kJapaneseOn | KUTSU KOTSU |
| kJis0 | 2301 |
| kKangXi | 0438.020 |
| kKarlgren | 493 |
| kKorean | KWUL KWEL |
| kLau | 1044 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 2228 |
| kMandarin | jué |
| kMatthews | 1695 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1403 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ012479 |
| kMorohashi | 12264 |
| kNelson | 1943 |
| kPhonetic | 1449 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1783+64.3.8 |
| kRSUnicode | 64.8 |
| kSBGY | 476.23 478.44 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 256.05 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | jué粵gwat6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 2228 |
| kTang | ghiuæt ghiuət |
| kTGHZ2013 | 188.140:jué |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | quật |
| kXerox | 253:107 |
| kXHC1983 | 0620.090:jué |