U+6402 "搂" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+6402 "搂" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to embrace" or "to hug" as a verb, and can also refer to "to gather up" or "to take into one's arms." It is composed of the radical "扌" (hand), indicating an action performed by hands, and a phonetic component "娄" (lóu) that suggests the pronunciation. In modern standard Chinese (Mandarin), it is used in words like "搂抱" (lǒu bào, to hug) and carries a literal sense of physically encircling something or someone with the arms, while in some contexts it can figuratively imply drawing inward or collecting.

General Properties

Code Point U+6402
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 搂
HTML Hex Encoding 搂
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE6 0x90 0x82
UTF-16 Encoding 0x6402
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00006402
C/C++/Java Escape \u6402

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 27415F
kCangjie QFDV
kCantonese lau1
kDefinition hug, embrace; drag, pull
kEACC 27415F
kFourCornerCode 5904
kGB0 3407
kHanYu 31923.120
kHanyuPinlu lǒu(25)
kIICore AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 31923.120
kIRGKangXi 0445.341
kIRG_GSource G0-4227
kTGH 2013:2535
kKangXi 0445.341
kMainlandTelegraph 2299
kMandarin lǒu
kPhonetic 780*
kRSUnicode 64.9
kSMSZD2003Index 261.20
kTGHZ2013 230.220:lōu 231.140:lǒu
kTotalStrokes 12
kTraditionalVariant "摟" U+645F CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 0733.090:lōu 0734.070:lǒu