U+653A "攺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+653A "攺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare Chinese character historically used as a variant form of the character 改 (gǎi), which means "to change" or "to alter." Its structure combines the radical 攵 (meaning "to strike" or "to act") with a phonetic component, and it appears in classical texts and ancient dictionaries such as the Kangxi Dictionary, where it is listed as an alternate or archaic spelling. While it is not commonly used in modern standard Chinese, it remains a part of the CJK Unified Ideograph block for historical and scholarly purposes, representing a specific stage in the evolution of Chinese writing.

General Properties

Code Point U+653A
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 攺
HTML Hex Encoding 攺
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE6 0x94 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding 0x653A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000653A
C/C++/Java Escape \u653a

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 RUOK
kCantonese ji5
kDaeJaweon 0817.010
kFanqie 羊己 詳里
kGB5 3078
kHanYu 21450.020
kHanyuPinyin 21450.020:yǐ
kIRGDaeJaweon 0817.010
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 21450.020
kIRGKangXi 0468.120
kIRG_GSource G5-3E6E
kIRG_JSource J1-4147
kIRG_KSource K2-3764
kIRG_TSource T4-243F
kJapanese イ シ ジ
kJapaneseOn I SHI JI
kJis1 3339
kKangXi 0468.120
kMandarin
kMojiJoho MJ012955
kMorohashi 13115
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+21678+49.3.4 C+21678+66.4.3
kRSUnicode 66.3
kSBGY 251.25 252.06
kTotalStrokes 7