U+6920 "椠" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
椠
U+6920 "椠" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily represents a carving or engraving tool, specifically referring to a wooden tablet or a knife used for inscribing characters on bamboo or wood strips in ancient China. It is composed of the radical for "wood" or "tree" on the left side, indicating its material connection, and a phonetic component on the right that suggests its pronunciation in modern Mandarin as "qian" (fourth tone). Historically, this character appears in classical texts discussing scribes, manuscript preparation, or document editing, underscoring its role in traditional East Asian writing and record keeping.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+6920 |
| 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 | 椠 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 椠 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0xA4 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x6920 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00006920 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u6920 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 284056 |
| kCangjie | KLD |
| kCantonese | cim3 |
| kDefinition | wooden tablet; edition |
| kEACC | 284056 |
| kFourCornerCode | 5290 |
| kGB0 | 7293 |
| kHanYu | 21229.070 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21229.070 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0537.131 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-687D |
| kTGH | 2013:5119 |
| kKangXi | 0537.131 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 2858 |
| kMandarin | qiàn |
| kPhonetic | 21* |
| kRSUnicode | 75.8 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 323.17 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 297.120:qiàn |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "槧" U+69E7 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0915.120:qiàn |