U+63CF "描" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+63CF "描" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily conveys the meaning of "to trace," "to sketch," or "to depict." Composed of the radical for "hand" or "action" combined with the phonetic component "苗" (miao), it is commonly used in words related to drawing or describing, such as 描述 (miáo shù) meaning "to describe" and 描繪 meaning "to depict." The character is central to artistic and descriptive language in both Chinese and Japanese, where it appears in terms for sketching or outlining an image or concept.

General Properties

Code Point	U+63CF
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	描
HTML Hex Encoding	描
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE6 0x8F 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding	0x63CF
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000063CF
C/C++/Java Escape	\u63cf

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

kBigFive	B479
kCCCII	214143
kCNS1986	1-5F40
kCNS1992	1-5F40
kCangjie	QTW
kCantonese	miu4
kCihaiT	586.505
kCowles	2705
kDaeJaweon	0792.130
kDefinition	copy, trace, sketch; depict
kEACC	214143
kFanqie	武瀌 莫交
kFenn	817F
kFennIndex	339.10
kFourCornerCode	5406.0
kGB0	3572
kGB1	3572
kGradeLevel	4
kHangul	묘:0N
kHanYu	31892.030
kHanyuPinlu	miáo(56)
kHanyuPinyin	31892.030:miáo,mào
kHKGlyph	1602
kIICore	AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	0792.130
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	31892.030
kIRGKangXi	0441.170
kIRG_GSource	G0-4368
kIRG_HSource	HB1-B479
kIRG_JSource	J0-4941
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-DBC8
kIRG_KSource	K0-595A
kIRG_TSource	T1-5F40
kIRG_VSource	V1-574A
kJapanese	ビョウ ボウ ミョウ えがく
kJoyoKanji	2010
kKoreanName	2015
kTGH	2013:2163
kJapaneseKun	EGAKU
kJapaneseOn	BYOU
kJis0	4133
kKangXi	0441.170
kKorean	MYO
kLau	2155
kMainlandTelegraph	2249
kMandarin	miáo
kMatthews	4472
kMeyerWempe	1836
kMojiJoho	MJ012537 MJ012537:E0101 MJ012538:E0102
kMorohashi	12339:E0102
kNelson	1936
kPhonetic	908
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+3507+64.3.8
kRSUnicode	64.9
kSBGY	150.11 153.15
kSMSZD2003Index	259.08
kSMSZD2003Readings	miáo粵miu4
kTaiwanTelegraph	2249
kTGHZ2013	252.050:miáo
kTotalStrokes	11
kUnihanCore2020	GHJKMPT
kVietnamese	miêu
kXerox	255:110
kXHC1983	0788.010:miáo