U+68BC "梼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+68BC "梼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily functions as a variant or simplified form of the traditional character "檮" (also written as "梼" in some contexts), which means "a block of wood" or "a stump," and is also associated with the mythical ancient Chinese beast "Taotie," a greedy and monstrous creature often depicted on bronze vessels, as well as serving as a surname and appearing in the historical term "梼杌" (Táowù), referring to a legendary fierce animal or, by extension, a ruthless person or a historical chronicle.

General Properties

Code Point U+68BC
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 梼
HTML Hex Encoding 梼
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE6 0xA2 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding 0x68BC
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000068BC
C/C++/Java Escape \u68bc

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 284257
kCangjie DQKI
kCantonese tou4
kDefinition block of wood; blockhead; stupid
kEACC 284257
kFourCornerCode 4494.1
kGB8 9177
kHanYu 21209.041
kIICore AJ
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 21209.041
kIRGKangXi 0531.131
kIRG_GSource G8-7B6D
kIRG_JSource J0-456E
kJapanese トウ チュウ ジュ ドウ
kTGH 2013:7135
kJapaneseKun KIRIKABU OROKA TSUKU
kJapaneseOn TOU
kJis0 3778
kKangXi 0531.131
kMainlandTelegraph 2917
kMandarin táo
kMojiJoho MJ014029
kMorohashi H257
kPhonetic 1149*
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+3176+75.4.7
kRSUnicode 75.7
kSMSZD2003Index 320.07
kTGHZ2013 362.020:táo
kTotalStrokes 11
kTraditionalVariant "檮" U+6AAE CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 GJ
kXHC1983 1121.030:táo