U+63B9 "掹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
掹
U+63B9 "掹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily used in Cantonese, where it is pronounced roughly as "mang1" and means to pull, pluck, or extract something with force, often implying a sudden or vigorous action. It is composed of the radical 扌 (hand) on the left, indicating a manual action, and the phonetic component 孟 on the right, which hints at its pronunciation. This character is not commonly found in standard Mandarin Chinese but appears in colloquial Cantonese texts, such as in the phrase "掹草" meaning to pull up weeds. Its usage highlights the regional diversity within Chinese writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+63B9 |
| 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 | 掹 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 掹 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0x8E 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x63B9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000063B9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u63b9 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 243634 |
| kCangjie | QNDT |
| kCantonese | mang1 |
| kCheungBauer | 064/08;QNDT;maang1,mang1,mang3 |
| kCheungBauerIndex | 413.02 |
| kCowles | 2631.5 |
| kDefinition | (Cant.) to pluck, to pull |
| kHanYu | 31909.041 |
| kIICore | CH |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 31909.041 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0440.181 |
| kIRG_GSource | GH-1254 |
| kIRG_HSource | H-9E4C |
| kKangXi | 0440.181 |
| kMandarin | meng |
| kPhonetic | 868* |
| kPseudoGB1 | 9228 |
| kRSUnicode | 64.8 |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | H |