U+63FC "揼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
揼
U+63FC "揼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used primarily in Cantonese, where it represents the sound "dap" and means to hit, beat, or hammer, often implying a downward striking motion. It may also refer to something heavy or to the act of pressing down, such as in pounding rice or driving a nail. In Mandarin, it can be pronounced "da" but retains associations with forceful impacts in various dialects. This character appears in historical dictionaries like the Kangxi radical 64 hand radical, and its modern usage is more common in colloquial Southern Chinese contexts than in standard written Chinese.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+63FC |
| 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 | 揼 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 揼 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0x8F 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x63FC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000063FC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u63fc |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCangjie | QMRE |
| kCantonese | dam2 |
| kCheungBauer | 064/09;QMRE;dam1,dam2,dam3,dam4,dap6 |
| kCheungBauerIndex | 414.01 414.02 414.03 414.04 414.05 |
| kCowles | 4086 |
| kDefinition | (Cant.) to delay, waste time; to throw down, beat; to hang down |
| kHanYu | 31913.111 |
| kIICore | BHM |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 31913.111 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0445.341 |
| kIRG_GSource | GH-1256 |
| kIRG_HSource | H-9E4B |
| kKangXi | 0445.341 |
| kLau | 487 |
| kMandarin | beng |
| kMeyerWempe | 3000 |
| kPhonetic | 1015* |
| kPseudoGB1 | 9229 |
| kRSUnicode | 64.9 |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HM |