U+655B "敛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+655B "敛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to collect," "to gather," or "to restrain." It is commonly used in modern and classical Chinese, often appearing in contexts such as "收敛" (to converge, to restrain oneself) or "敛财" (to accumulate wealth, often by improper means). The character is composed of the radical for "strike" or "tap" on the left side and a phonetic component related to "to examine" or "to gather" on the right, reflecting its semantic focus on drawing things together or holding back. In historical usage, it also carried connotations of frugality or self control, making it a versatile term in both moral and practical descriptions.

General Properties

Code Point U+655B
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 敛
HTML Hex Encoding 敛
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE6 0x95 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding 0x655B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000655B
C/C++/Java Escape \u655b

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 274256
kCangjie OMOK
kCantonese lim5
kDefinition draw back, fold back; collect
kEACC 274256
kFourCornerCode 8814
kGB0 3318
kHanYu 21463.050
kIICore AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 21463.050
kIRGKangXi 0472.051
kIRG_GSource G0-4132
kTGH 2013:2350
kKangXi 0472.051
kMainlandTelegraph 2425
kMandarin liǎn
kPhonetic 182*
kRSUnicode 66.7
kSMSZD2003Index 277.07
kTGHZ2013 219.170:liǎn
kTotalStrokes 11
kTraditionalVariant "斂" U+6582 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 0704.080:liǎn