U+63A4 "掤" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
掤
U+63A4 "掤" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily refers to the martial arts concept of "warding off" or "deflecting" force, originating from the internal art of Tai Chi, where it describes a specific circular, expansive movement used to redirect an opponent's energy. In its broader classical usage, it can mean to support, hold up, or draw a bow to its full extent, reflecting a sense of outward expansion or stretching. This character is composed of the hand or action radical on the left and a phonetic component on the right, and it typically appears in historical texts on Chinese philosophy and martial theory, rather than in modern everyday vocabulary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+63A4 |
| 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 | 掤 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 掤 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0x8E 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x63A4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000063A4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u63a4 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | D57C |
| kCCCII | 223235 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-3560 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-3560 |
| kCangjie | QBB |
| kCantonese | bing1 |
| kCheungBauer | 064/08;QBB;mang1 |
| kCheungBauerIndex | 413.03 |
| kCihaiT | 581.301 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0789.030 |
| kDefinition | quiver; (Cant.) to pull on something |
| kFanqie | 筆陵 |
| kFourCornerCode | 5702.0 |
| kGB3 | 4253 |
| kGSR | 0886n |
| kHanYu | 31902.030 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 31902.030:bīng |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0789.030 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 31902.030 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0439.030 |
| kIRG_GSource | G3-4A55 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-D57C |
| kIRG_JSource | J1-402F |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-462F |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-3561 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-3560 |
| kJapanese | ヒョウ |
| kJapaneseKun | HUTA |
| kJapaneseOn | HYOU |
| kJis1 | 3215 |
| kKangXi | 0439.030 |
| kMandarin | bīng |
| kMojiJoho | MJ012492 |
| kMorohashi | 12279 |
| kPhonetic | 1024 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+21641+64.3.8 |
| kRSUnicode | 64.8 |
| kSBGY | 199.25 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 8442 |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |
| kXerox | 311:141 |