U+63B4 "掴" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
掴
U+63B4 "掴" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to slap" or "to strike with the palm of the hand," often used in the context of a facial slap or a firm grip. It is composed of the hand radical (扌) on the left, which indicates an action involving the hand, and a phonetic component on the right that contributes to its pronunciation, typically read as "guó" in Mandarin. This character is commonly found in compound words like "掴掌" (guó zhǎng) meaning a slap on the face, and it appears in both traditional and simplified Chinese texts as well as in Japanese kanji usage, where it carries similar connotations of striking or seizing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+63B4 |
| 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 | 掴 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 掴 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0x8E 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x63B4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000063B4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u63b4 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 274160 |
| kCangjie | QWMI |
| kCantonese | gwaak3 |
| kDefinition | box one's ears, slap |
| kEACC | 274160 |
| kFourCornerCode | 5600.0 |
| kGB0 | 6266 |
| kHanYu | 31897.010 |
| kIICore | AGJ |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 31897.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0440.181 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5E62 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-444F |
| kJapanese | カク つかみ つかむ |
| kTGH | 2013:4721 |
| kJapaneseKun | TSUKAMU TSUKAMI |
| kJapaneseOn | KAKU |
| kJis0 | 3647 |
| kKangXi | 0440.181 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 2310 |
| kMandarin | guāi |
| kMojiJoho | MJ012509 |
| kMorohashi | H205 |
| kNelson | 1985 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+3051+64.3.8 |
| kRSUnicode | 64.8 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 258.17 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 120.120:guāi |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "摑" U+6451 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GJ |
| kXHC1983 | 0404.040:guāi 0426.020:guó |