U+6586 "斆" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+6586 "斆" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and complex Chinese character that primarily means "to teach" or "to instruct," embodying the ancient concept of guiding others in learning or practice. It is composed of the radical for "filial piety" or "learning" on the left side, combined with components suggesting action or process on the right, reflecting its semantic roots in classical Chinese texts. This character is an alternative or variant form of the more common character "教" (jiào), which also means "to teach," and it appears in historical literature, particularly in Confucian and educational contexts, though it is seldom used in modern writing. Its inclusion in the CJK Unified Ideographs block ensures its representation for scholarly and historical documentation purposes.

General Properties

Code Point U+6586
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 斆
HTML Hex Encoding 斆
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE6 0x96 0x86
UTF-16 Encoding 0x6586
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00006586
C/C++/Java Escape \u6586

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 HDOK
kCantonese haau6
kDefinition teach, instruct; be aroused; awake; intelligent
kGB3 3935
kGSR 1038d
kHanYu 80022.190
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 80022.190
kIRGKangXi 0476.271
kIRG_GSource G3-4743
kIRG_HSource H-8DAC
kIRG_JSource JMJ-013039
kIRG_KPSource KP1-486A
kJapanese ガク まなぶ
kJapaneseKun OSHIERU
kJapaneseOn KOU GYOU KAKU GAKU
kKangXi 0476.271
kKarlgren 173
kKorean HYO
kMandarin xiào
kMatthews 2604
kMeyerWempe 653b
kMojiJoho MJ013039
kRSUnicode 66.16
kSBGY 415.12
kSemanticVariant U+6585<kMatthews U+93F0<kMatthews
kSimplifiedVariant "敩" U+6569 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kTang gàu
kTotalStrokes 20
kUnihanCore2020 H