U+656B "敫" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+656B "敫" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character with a complex history, functioning primarily as a phonetic component in other characters rather than as a common standalone word. Its ancient pronunciation is reconstructed as something like "kewk" or "kiwk" in Middle Chinese, and it is found in classical texts as a surname or a rarely used verb meaning "to lay bare" or "to expose," though modern Chinese dictionaries often classify it as a "rare character" (生僻字) with limited practical usage today. In the Unicode standard, it is encoded as part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block to support historical and literary texts where it appears, such as in the name of the Han dynasty general 郦敫 (Li Jiao), ensuring digital preservation of these written forms.

General Properties

Code Point	U+656B
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	敫
HTML Hex Encoding	敫
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE6 0x95 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding	0x656B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000656B
C/C++/Java Escape	\u656b

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	226055
kCNS1986	E-414B
kCNS1992	3-414B
kCangjie	HSOK
kCantonese	giu3
kDaeJaweon	0826.180
kDefinition	ancient musical instrument
kEACC	226055
kFanqie	古弔 以灼 古歷
kFenn	551P
kFennIndex	32.01
kFourCornerCode	2824
kGB0	7524
kGB1	7524
kGSR	1162a
kHanYu	21470.130
kHanyuPinyin	21470.130:jiǎo,qiāo,jiào
kIRGDaeJaweon	0826.180
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	21470.130
kIRGKangXi	0473.180
kIRG_GSource	G0-6B38
kIRG_HSource	H-93B3
kIRG_JSource	J14-2D64
kIRG_KSource	K2-3778
kIRG_TSource	T3-414B
kJapanese	ヤク キョウ ケキ キャク
kTGH	2013:5507
kJIS0213	2,13,68
kJapaneseKun	UTSURU
kJapaneseOn	SEKU KYOU KEKI KYAKU
kJis1	3351
kKangXi	0473.180
kKarlgren	329
kMainlandTelegraph	8490
kMandarin	jiǎo
kMatthews	478
kMojiJoho	MJ013005
kMorohashi	13286
kPhonetic	635
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+17721+66.4.9
kRSUnicode	66.9
kSBGY	501.16 520.26
kSMSZD2003Index	278.06
kSMSZD2003Readings	jiǎo粵joek6 jiào粵giu3
kTaiwanTelegraph	8475
kTGHZ2013	170.110:jiǎo
kTotalStrokes	13
kUnihanCore2020	GH
kXerox	303:164
kXHC1983	0569.020,0569.030:jiǎo