U+6494 "撔" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+6494 "撔" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rarely used Chinese character that appears in the Kangxi dictionary and historical texts, generally associated with meanings related to striking, hitting, or stopping, though its exact usage has become obscure in modern Standard Chinese. It is composed of the radical 扌 (hand) on the left, suggesting an action related to the hand, combined with a phonetic component on the right. While the character is included in the Unicode standard for compatibility and preservation of historical scripts, it is not commonly encountered in contemporary writing, making it primarily of interest to scholars of classical Chinese literature and ancient philology.

General Properties

Code Point	U+6494
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	撔
HTML Hex Encoding	撔
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE6 0x92 0x94
UTF-16 Encoding	0x6494
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00006494
C/C++/Java Escape	\u6494

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	243770
kCNS1986	E-4C31
kCNS1992	3-4C31
kCangjie	QAYF
kCantonese	wang6
kGB5	4548
kHanYu	31958.010
kHanyuPinyin	31958.010:hòng
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	31958.010
kIRGKangXi	0454.100
kIRG_GSource	G5-4D50
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-012760
kIRG_TSource	T3-4C31
kIRG_VSource	V0-385B
kJapanese	コウ ギョウ
kKangXi	0454.100
kMandarin	hòng
kMojiJoho	MJ012760
kMorohashi	12700
kRSUnicode	64.12
kTotalStrokes	15
kVietnamese	ngảnh