U+673F "朿" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+673F "朿" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily functions as a component or radical in more complex logographs, rather than as a standalone common word in modern usage. Its core meaning relates to a thorn, a prickle, or the concept of piercing or stabbing, which is reflected in its depiction of a tree or plant with sharp spikes. Historically, this character serves as the phonetic and semantic building block for other characters like "刺" (cì), meaning thorn or to stab, and "棗" (zǎo), meaning jujube or Chinese date. In classical texts or calligraphy, "朿" might appear independently with these associations, but in contemporary standard Chinese, it is rarely used alone and is instead recognized by scholars and linguists for its structural role in the writing system.

General Properties

Code Point	U+673F
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	朿
HTML Hex Encoding	朿
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE6 0x9C 0xBF
UTF-16 Encoding	0x673F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000673F
C/C++/Java Escape	\u673f

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	C9F4
kCCCII	223A4E
kCNS1986	2-2255
kCNS1992	2-2255
kCangjie	DB
kCantonese	ci3
kCihaiT	670.101
kCowles	4859
kDaeJaweon	0894.150
kDefinition	stab
kEACC	223A4E
kFanqie	七賜
kFenn	500G
kFennIndex	588.09
kFourCornerCode	5090.2
kGB3	1603
kGB8	9002
kGSR	0868a
kHanYu	21153.030
kHanyuPinyin	21153.030:cì
kIRGDaeJaweon	0894.150
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	21153.030
kIRGKangXi	0510.180
kIRG_GSource	G3-3023
kIRG_HSource	HB2-C9F4
kIRG_JSource	J0-5B33
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-4A77
kIRG_KSource	K2-3959
kIRG_TSource	T2-2255
kJapanese	シ キョク コキ とげ
kJapaneseKun	TOGE
kJapaneseOn	SHI
kJis0	5919
kKangXi	0510.180
kMainlandTelegraph	2642
kMandarin	cì
kMatthews	6986
kMeyerWempe	3549a
kMojiJoho	MJ013597
kMorohashi	14441
kPhonetic	161
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+5142+75.4.2
kRSUnicode	75.2
kSBGY	347.29
kSemanticVariant	U+83BF<kMatthews
kTotalStrokes	6
kUnihanCore2020	HJMT
kXerox	324:143