U+63BA "掺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+63BA "掺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character commonly used in both traditional and simplified scripts, primarily pronounced as "chān" in Mandarin. It conveys the meanings of mixing, blending, or inserting something into a mixture, often in the context of combining liquids, powders, or other substances. In everyday usage, it appears in terms like "掺杂" (chānzá), meaning to adulterate or intermix, and is also used metaphorically to describe interjecting or interfering in a situation. This character originates from the radical for hand (扌) combined with a phonetic component, reflecting its physical connotation of manual mixing, and is widely recognized in modern Chinese writing for both concrete and abstract applications.

General Properties

Code Point	U+63BA
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	掺
HTML Hex Encoding	掺
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE6 0x8E 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding	0x63BA
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000063BA
C/C++/Java Escape	\u63ba

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	28342C
kCNS1986	E-362E
kCNS1992	3-362E
kCangjie	QIKH
kCantonese	caam1
kDefinition	mix, blend, adulterate
kEACC	28342C
kFourCornerCode	5302
kGB0	1884
kHanYu	31909.060
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	31909.060
kIRGKangXi	0440.181
kIRG_GSource	G0-3274
kIRG_TSource	T3-362E
kTGH	2013:2191
kKangXi	0440.181
kMainlandTelegraph	2296
kMandarin	chān
kMeyerWempe	3230b
kPhonetic	23
kRSUnicode	64.8
kSMSZD2003Index	258.16
kTGHZ2013	036.110:chān
kTotalStrokes	11
kTraditionalVariant	"摻" U+647B CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0104.090:càn 0117.010:chān 0998.060:shǎn