U+6594 "斔" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+6594 "斔" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and complex Chinese character that falls under the CJK Unified Ideographs block, though its exact modern usage is obscure and it is not a common component of standard Chinese vocabulary. Historically, it is believed to be a variant or an alternative form of the character "斞" (U+659E), which refers to an ancient unit of dry measure for grain, roughly equivalent to 16 pecks or a specific volume in traditional Chinese systems. In classical texts, "斔" may appear in contexts related to metrology or historical records of capacity, but it is largely considered a archaic or non-standard glyph today. Its structure combines elements related to the act of striking or percussion (as suggested by the "殳" component) with a phonetic or semantic component, but its precise etymology remains unclear, and it is seldom encountered outside of specialized academic discussions or unicode citation databases.

General Properties

Code Point U+6594
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 斔
HTML Hex Encoding 斔
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE6 0x96 0x94
UTF-16 Encoding 0x6594
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00006594
C/C++/Java Escape \u6594

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 EFD8
kCCCII 243B36
kCNS1986 2-6164
kCNS1992 2-6164
kCangjie YIHXO
kCantonese jyu4
kDaeJaweon 0835.240
kFourCornerCode 0713.7
kGB5 4891
kGSR 0126g
kHanYu 32171.070
kHanyuPinyin 32171.070:yǔ
kIRGDaeJaweon 0835.240
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 32171.070
kIRGKangXi 0477.210
kIRG_GSource G5-507B
kIRG_HSource HB2-EFD8
kIRG_JSource JMJ-013056
kIRG_KPSource KP1-4880
kIRG_KSource K2-3829
kIRG_TSource T2-6164
kJapanese ユ ショウ シュ
kKangXi 0477.210
kMandarin
kMojiJoho MJ013056
kMorohashi 13484
kPhonetic 1609
kRSUnicode 67.15
kTotalStrokes 18
kUnihanCore2020 HMT