U+639B "掛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
掛
U+639B "掛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character commonly meaning "to hang" or "to suspend," and it also carries extended senses such as "to put up" or "to register." In traditional East Asian usage, it appears in words like "掛ける" (kakeru) in Japanese, meaning to hang, and in Chinese compounds like "掛號" (guàhào) for registration or "掛念" (guàniàn) for worry or concern. The character is composed of the hand radical (扌) on the left, indicating action, and the phonetic component "卦" (guà) on the right, which originally referred to divination symbols, lending it both semantic and phonetic structure. This ideograph is prevalent in written Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, reflecting a shared cultural heritage across East Asia.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+639B |
| 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 | 掛 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 掛 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0x8E 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x639B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000639B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u639b |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B1BE |
| kCCCII | 214123 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5A62 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5A62 |
| kCangjie | QGGY |
| kCantonese | gwaa3 |
| kCihaiT | 580.403 |
| kCowles | 2040 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0788.030 |
| kDefinition | hang, suspend; suspense |
| kEACC | 214123 |
| kFanqie | 古賣 |
| kFenn | 49B |
| kFennIndex | 264.03 |
| kFourCornerCode | 5300.0 |
| kGradeLevel | 1 |
| kGSR | 0879u |
| kHangul | 괘:0E |
| kHanYu | 31890.130 |
| kHanyuPinlu | guà(270) |
| kHKGlyph | 1585 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0788.030 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 31890.130 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0438.050 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-3A4F |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B1BE |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-335D |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-D4C6 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-4E50 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5A62 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-573C |
| kJapanese | カイ ケ カ かける かかる かかり かけ |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kJapaneseKun | KAKERU KAKARU KAKARI |
| kJapaneseOn | KA KAI |
| kJis0 | 1961 |
| kKangXi | 0438.050 |
| kKarlgren | 433 |
| kKorean | KWAY |
| kLau | 1013 |
| kMandarin | guà |
| kMatthews | 3515 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1349 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ012482 |
| kMorohashi | 12267 |
| kNelson | 1952 |
| kPhonetic | 699 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1467+64.3.8 |
| kRSUnicode | 64.8 |
| kSBGY | 383.28 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+6302<kLau,kMatthews,kMeyerWempe |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "挂" U+6302 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 256.08 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | guà粵gwaa3 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 2229 |
| kTang | *guɛ̀i |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | quẩy |
| kXerox | 246:162 |
| kXHC1983 | 0403.091:guà |