U+6491 "撑" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
撑
U+6491 "撑" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to support" or "to prop up," often used in contexts involving physical support, like holding up an umbrella or bracing a structure, as well as metaphorically for enduring or sustaining something, such as "to keep going" or "to manage" under pressure. It is composed of the radical 扌 (hand) combined with the phonetic component 掌, reflecting its action-oriented meaning of using the hand to push or bear weight. This character appears frequently in everyday vocabulary, including words like 支撑 (zhīchēng, to support) and 撑伞 (chēngsǎn, to hold an umbrella), making it a practical and common element in written and spoken Chinese.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+6491 |
| 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 | 撑 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 撑 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0x92 0x91 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x6491 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00006491 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u6491 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 2D416C |
| kCNS1986 | E-4C3B |
| kCNS1992 | 3-4C3B |
| kCangjie | QFBQ |
| kCantonese | caang1 |
| kCihaiT | 593.604 |
| kCowles | 437 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0803.210 |
| kDefinition | prop up, support; brace |
| kEACC | 21416C |
| kFennIndex | 29.05 |
| kFourCornerCode | 5905 |
| kGB0 | 1937 |
| kGB1 | 1937 |
| kHangul | 탱:0N |
| kHanYu | 31957.010 |
| kHanyuPinlu | chēng(25) cheng(17) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 31957.010:chēng |
| kIICore | AGKP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0803.210 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 31957.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0454.040 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3345 |
| kIRG_HSource | H-894D |
| kIRG_JSource | J14-2D4F |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F0E2 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-774B |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-4C3B |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-575E |
| kJapanese | トウ ひかえばしら |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:3196 |
| kJIS0213 | 2,13,47 |
| kJapaneseKun | SASAERU AKU |
| kJapaneseOn | CHOU |
| kJis1 | 3280 |
| kKangXi | 0454.040 |
| kKorean | THAYNG |
| kLau | 186 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 2300 |
| kMandarin | chēng |
| kMatthews | 391 |
| kMeyerWempe | 161 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ012757 |
| kMorohashi | 12694 |
| kPhonetic | 33 114 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+17704+64.3.12 |
| kRSUnicode | 64.12 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+6490<kFenn |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "撑" U+6491 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 268.04 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | chēng粵caang1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 8427 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 043.070:chēng |
| kTotalStrokes | 15 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "撐" U+6490 CJK Unified Ideograph-# "撑" U+6491 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHKP |
| kVietnamese | xênh |
| kXHC1983 | 0134.090:chēng |