U+6541 "敁" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+6541 "敁" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rarely used Chinese character that primarily functions as a verb meaning to weigh in the hand or to estimate weight by holding and feeling an object, often referring to the action of testing heaviness or balance. Its usage is documented in classical Chinese texts where it describes a tactile method of measurement, and it belongs to the broader set of CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) Unified Ideographs which encode logographic scripts from East Asian languages. In modern contexts, this character is considered obscure and is not commonly employed in contemporary writing or speech, though it remains a component of the Unicode standard for historical and linguistic preservation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+6541
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	敁
HTML Hex Encoding	敁
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE6 0x95 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding	0x6541
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00006541
C/C++/Java Escape	\u6541

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

kBigFive	CEE7
kCCCII	223633
kCNS1986	2-2A68
kCNS1992	2-2A68
kCangjie	YRYE
kCantonese	dim1
kCihaiT	602.301
kDaeJaweon	0819.070
kDefinition	to weigh in the hand, to estimate; to shake
kEACC	22357C
kFanqie	丁兼
kFennIndex	520.11
kFourCornerCode	2164.7
kGB5	4079
kHanYu	21452.050
kHanyuPinyin	21452.050:diān
kIRGDaeJaweon	0819.070
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	21452.050
kIRGKangXi	0469.190
kIRG_GSource	G5-486F
kIRG_HSource	HB2-CEE7
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-012963
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-4807
kIRG_KSource	K2-3767
kIRG_TSource	T2-2A68
kJapanese	テン
kKangXi	0469.190
kLau	535
kMandarin	diān
kMatthews	6343
kMojiJoho	MJ012963
kMorohashi	13155
kPhonetic	177
kRSUnicode	66.5
kSBGY	228.38
kSemanticVariant	U+6382<kMatthews
kSMSZD2003Index	275.10
kSMSZD2003Readings	diān粵dim1
kSpecializedSemanticVariant	U+62C8<kFenn
kTotalStrokes	9
kUnihanCore2020	HMT
kXHC1983	0239.101:diān