U+6488 "撈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
撈
U+6488 "撈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to fish up" or "to dredge," often conveying the action of scooping or retrieving something from water. It is composed of the radical 扌 (hand) on the left, indicating a manual action, and the component 勞 (labor or toil) on the right, which contributes to its pronunciation as "lao" in Mandarin. In modern usage, this character appears in words like 撈魚 (to catch fish) or 打撈 (salvaging or dredging), and it can also metaphorically imply gaining profit or benefit, sometimes with a negative connotation in slang such as 撈偏門 (to make money through shady means).
General Properties
| Code Point | U+6488 |
| 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 | 撈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 撈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0x92 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x6488 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00006488 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u6488 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | BCB4 |
| kCCCII | 214165 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6C7C |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6C7C |
| kCangjie | QFFS |
| kCantonese | laau4 |
| kCihaiT | 593.402 |
| kCowles | 2198 2402 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0803.060 |
| kDefinition | scoop out of water; dredge, fish |
| kEACC | 214165 |
| kFanqie | 魯刀 |
| kFenn | 449E |
| kFennIndex | 288.07 |
| kFourCornerCode | 5902.7 |
| kGB1 | 3244 |
| kHangul | 로:0N |
| kHanYu | 31963.020 |
| kHanyuPinlu | lāo(68) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 31963.020:lāo |
| kHKGlyph | 1647 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0803.060 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 31963.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0453.230 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-404C |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-BCB4 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-597D |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-D8CE |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-564E |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6C7C |
| kIRG_VSource | V0-3859 |
| kJapanese | ロウ リョウ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | SUKUIAGE TORU |
| kJapaneseOn | ROU RYOU |
| kJis0 | 5793 |
| kKangXi | 0453.230 |
| kKarlgren | 516 |
| kKorean | LO |
| kLau | 1790 1925 1926 |
| kMandarin | lāo |
| kMatthews | 3829 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1459 1611 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ012746 |
| kMorohashi | 12679 |
| kNelson | 1989 |
| kPhonetic | 821 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+5028+64.3.12 |
| kRSUnicode | 64.12 |
| kSBGY | 155.39 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "捞" U+635E CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 266.11 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | lāo粵laau4 lāo粵lou1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 2318 |
| kTotalStrokes | 15 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | lau |
| kXerox | 255:337 |
| kXHC1983 | 0676.081:lāo |