U+685A "桚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+685A "桚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that historically functions as a variant of the more common character "拶" (zǎn) in traditional usage, although it can also appear as a variant of other characters in different contexts. Its most well known application is in the compound word "拶指" (桚指), which refers to the ancient Chinese torture device known as the finger press, where sticks were placed between the fingers and squeezed to inflict pain during interrogation. In modern usage, the character is rare and primarily encountered in historical texts, legal records, or literary works describing this specific form of punishment.

General Properties

Code Point	U+685A
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	桚
HTML Hex Encoding	桚
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE6 0xA1 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding	0x685A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000685A
C/C++/Java Escape	\u685a

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	223C65
kCNS1986	E-652D
kCNS1992	3-652D
kCangjie	DVVN
kCantonese	zaat3
kDefinition	press, squeeze hard; force
kEACC	223C65
kHanYu	21209.040
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	21209.040
kIRGKangXi	0526.211
kIRG_GSource	GE-3C76
kIRG_TSource	T3-652D
kKangXi	0526.211
kMandarin	zǎn
kMorohashi	14791
kPhonetic	815
kRSUnicode	75.6
kTaiwanTelegraph	2740
kTotalStrokes	10
kXerox	323:260
kXHC1983	1439.091:zǎn