U+68B3 "梳" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+68B3 "梳" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents the concept of a comb or the action of combing, with its strokes depicting a wooden tool used for grooming hair. This logograph, composed of the wood radical and a phonetic component, has been used for millennia in written Chinese to denote both the physical object and the verb for untangling or arranging hair. It appears in classical texts and modern usage across various East Asian languages, including Japanese and Korean, where it may be pronounced differently but retains the same core meaning. The character’s design reflects its practical origins, linking the symbol to everyday life and cultural practices of personal care.

General Properties

Code Point U+68B3
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 梳
HTML Hex Encoding 梳
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE6 0xA2 0xB3
UTF-16 Encoding 0x68B3
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000068B3
C/C++/Java Escape \u68b3

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 AEDE
kCCCII 21445F
kCNS1986 1-5622
kCNS1992 1-5622
kCangjie DYIU
kCantonese so1
kCihaiT 690.105
kCowles 3976
kDaeJaweon 0919.080
kDefinition comb; brush
kEACC 21445F
kFanqie 所葅
kFenn 871B
kFennIndex 461.02
kFourCornerCode 4091.3
kGB0 4265
kGB1 4265
kGradeLevel 2
kHangul 소:0N
kHanYu 21219.060
kHanyuPinlu shū(30)
kHanyuPinyin 21219.060:shū
kHKGlyph 1916
kIICore AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon 0919.080
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 21219.060
kIRGKangXi 0531.070
kIRG_GSource G0-4A61
kIRG_HSource HB1-AEDE
kIRG_JSource J0-5B60
kIRG_KPSource KP0-E3A7
kIRG_KSource K0-613A
kIRG_TSource T1-5622
kIRG_VSource V1-5A24
kJapanese ソ ショ シュク くしけずる すく とく くし
kKoreanName 2015
kTGH 2013:2228
kJapaneseKun KUSHIKEZURU SUKU
kJapaneseOn SO
kJis0 5964
kKangXi 0531.070
kKorean SO
kLau 2885 2886
kMainlandTelegraph 2752
kMandarin shū
kMatthews 5860
kMeyerWempe 2753
kMojiJoho MJ014019
kMorohashi 14886
kNelson 2282
kPhonetic 779
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+5187+75.4.7
kRSUnicode 75.7
kSBGY 069.16
kSMSZD2003Index 319.05
kSMSZD2003Readings shū粵so1
kTaiwanTelegraph 2752
kTang *shriu
kTGHZ2013 340.140:shū
kTotalStrokes 11
kUnihanCore2020 GHJKMPT
kVietnamese
kXerox 253:052
kXHC1983 1062.020:shū