U+640B "搋" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

搋

U+640B "搋" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily functions as a verb meaning to rub, knead, or press with the hands, often used in the context of washing or handling dough but also carrying informal slang meanings in certain dialects. Its radical is the hand or action component 扌 (shǒu), and its phonetic component hái or chuāi reflects its pronunciation in Mandarin, where it is read as chuāi. The character appears in dictionaries and historical texts, though its usage varies regionally, and in modern contexts, it can also refer to a type of fish or to wiping substances off a surface, demonstrating its richness within the CJK script system.

General Properties

Code Point	U+640B
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	搋
HTML Hex Encoding	搋
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE6 0x90 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding	0x640B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000640B
C/C++/Java Escape	\u640b

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	DDB6
kCCCII	2E3028
kCNS1986	2-433C
kCNS1992	2-433C
kCangjie	QHYU
kCantonese	caai1
kCihaiT	587.101
kDaeJaweon	0796.250
kDefinition	to thump
kEACC	2E3028
kFanqie	丑皆
kFenn	204G
kFennIndex	100.05
kFourCornerCode	5101.1
kGB0	6285
kGB1	6285
kHanYu	31932.140
kHanyuPinyin	31932.140:chuāi,chǐ,yí
kIRGDaeJaweon	0796.250
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	31932.140
kIRGKangXi	0446.040
kIRG_GSource	G0-5E75
kIRG_HSource	HB2-DDB6
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-012597
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-46D3
kIRG_KSource	K2-3634
kIRG_TSource	T2-433C
kJapanese	チイタイテ
kTGH	2013:5357
kKangXi	0446.040
kMandarin	chuāi
kMatthews	1426
kMojiJoho	MJ012597
kMorohashi	12457
kPhonetic	1175
kRSUnicode	64.10
kSBGY	095.45
kSMSZD2003Index	263.07
kSMSZD2003Readings	chuāi粵caai1
kTGHZ2013	051.130:chuāi
kTotalStrokes	13
kUnihanCore2020	GHMT
kXerox	320:047
kXHC1983	0162.050:chuāi