U+6983 "榃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+6983 "榃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character classified under the radical for "tree" or "wood," composed of four instances of "木" arranged in a square pattern. This ideograph, often pronounced as "tán" in Mandarin, conveys the meaning of a "well-built wooden framework" or "interwoven timber structure," and is used in classical texts to describe rafters, scaffolding, or densely wooded areas. It appears in historical dictionaries such as the Kangxi Zidian and retains niche usage in traditional Chinese literature and architecture terminology.

General Properties

Code Point U+6983
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 榃
HTML Hex Encoding 榃
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE6 0xA6 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding 0x6983
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00006983
C/C++/Java Escape \u6983

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 DEC6
kCCCII 225D70
kCNS1986 2-452C
kCNS1992 2-452C
kCangjie DWW
kCantonese tam4
kDefinition raised path between fields
kFourCornerCode 4460.9
kGB3 5876
kGB8 9350
kHanYu 21244.060
kHanyuPinyin 21244.060:tán
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 21244.060
kIRGKangXi 0542.191
kIRG_GSource G3-5A6C
kIRG_HSource HB2-DEC6
kIRG_TSource T2-452C
kTGH 2013:7494
kKangXi 0542.191
kMainlandTelegraph 3978
kMandarin tán
kRSUnicode 75.9 102.8
kSMSZD2003Index 442.03 327.11
kSMSZD2003Readings tán粵tam4
kTGHZ2013 358.090:tán
kTotalStrokes 13
kUnihanCore2020 GHMT
kXerox 324:166
kXHC1983 1114.080:tán