U+693B "椻" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+693B "椻" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and archaic Chinese character that appears in classical texts and historical dictionaries, though it is not commonly used in modern standard written Chinese. Its structure combines the wood radical on the left with a phonetic component on the right, and its traditional meanings relate to a type of wooden tool or an action involving pressing or stopping, often associated with ancient agricultural or ritual contexts. According to historical references like the Kangxi Dictionary, the character also carries a reading similar to "yan" or "qian" depending on the region and time period, and it is occasionally found in transcribed Buddhist scriptures or commentaries on pre-Qin literature. Due to its obscurity, it is not included in most contemporary Chinese character encoding sets for daily use, but it remains a point of interest for scholars studying paleography and the evolution of Chinese writing.

General Properties

Code Point	U+693B
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	椻
HTML Hex Encoding	椻
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE6 0xA4 0xBB
UTF-16 Encoding	0x693B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000693B
C/C++/Java Escape	\u693b

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

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kCCCII	223E6F
kCNS1986	2-4370
kCNS1992	2-4370
kCangjie	DSAV
kCantonese	jin3
kDaeJaweon	0925.160
kFanqie	於建
kFourCornerCode	4191.4
kGB5	3651
kHanYu	21245.020
kHanyuPinyin	21245.020:yàn,yà
kIRGDaeJaweon	0925.160
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	21245.020
kIRGKangXi	0538.020
kIRG_GSource	G5-4453
kIRG_HSource	HB2-DDEA
kIRG_JSource	J14-2F2B
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-4C7F
kIRG_KSource	K2-3B65
kIRG_TSource	T2-4370
kJapanese	エン
kJIS0213	2,15,11
kJapaneseKun	SEKI
kJapaneseOn	EN
kJis1	3633
kKangXi	0538.020
kMandarin	yàn
kMojiJoho	MJ014163
kMorohashi	15084
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+14646+75.4.9
kRSUnicode	75.9
kTotalStrokes	13
kUnihanCore2020	HMT