U+639A "掚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+639A "掚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and largely archaic Chinese character that appears in historical texts and dictionaries, primarily functioning as a variant or alternative form of the character 兩 or 两, meaning "two" or "both" in Classical Chinese. It is composed of the hand/action radical 扌 on the left, combined with a phonetic component related to the idea of pairing, and its usage is documented in contexts such as ancient scripts, calligraphy, or specialized linguistic databases where variant glyphs are cataloged for the study of Chinese writing evolution. In modern Chinese, it is not commonly used in everyday language, making it a niche entry within the Unicode standard for preserving historical script diversity.

General Properties

Code Point U+639A
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 掚
HTML Hex Encoding 掚
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE6 0x8E 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding 0x639A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000639A
C/C++/Java Escape \u639a

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 243629
kCangjie QMLB
kCantonese loeng5
kDaeJaweon 0788.020
kFanqie 良㢡
kGB5 4420
kHanYu 31892.100
kHanyuPinyin 31892.100:liǎng
kIRGDaeJaweon 0788.020
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 31892.100
kIRGKangXi 0438.040
kIRG_GSource G5-4C34
kIRG_JSource J1-402D
kIRG_KPSource KP1-4624
kIRG_KSource K2-355D
kIRG_TSource T4-3178
kJapanese リョウ
kJapaneseKun KAZARU
kJapaneseOn RYOU KAZARU
kJis1 3213
kKangXi 0438.040
kMandarin liǎng
kMojiJoho MJ012481
kMorohashi 12266
kPhonetic 799*
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+21640+64.3.8
kRSUnicode 64.8
kSimplifiedVariant "𪭵" U+2AB75 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kTotalStrokes 11