U+64B8 "撸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+64B8 "撸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily functions as a verb meaning to rub, stroke, or scrub, often implying a repetitive or vigorous hand motion. It is commonly used in informal or colloquial contexts, such as in the phrase "撸串" meaning to eat skewers of grilled meat or vegetables, where it vividly conveys the action of sliding food off a skewer with one's hand or teeth. The character is composed of the hand radical on the left, indicating manual action, and a phonetic component on the right that hints at its pronunciation, which is "lū" in Mandarin.

General Properties

Code Point	U+64B8
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	撸
HTML Hex Encoding	撸
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE6 0x92 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding	0x64B8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000064B8
C/C++/Java Escape	\u64b8

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

kCangjie	XQNWA
kCantonese	lou5
kEACC	4C354A
kFourCornerCode	5706
kGB0	6303
kHanYu	31961.031
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	31961.031
kIRGKangXi	0457.161
kIRG_GSource	G0-5F23
kTGH	2013:5864
kKangXi	0457.161
kMandarin	lū
kRSUnicode	64.12
kTGHZ2013	232.040:lū
kTotalStrokes	15
kTraditionalVariant	"擼" U+64FC CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0735.060:lū