U+699D "榝" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+699D "榝" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that belongs to the set of CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideographs. Its modern meaning is somewhat obscure, but it primarily functions as a variant or alternative form of the character "殺" (shā), meaning "to kill" or "to slaughter," often appearing in historical or classical texts such as the ancient Chinese dictionary "Shuowen Jiezi." In modern usage, it is rarely employed in contemporary writing except in specialized contexts like calligraphy or historical linguistic studies.

General Properties

Code Point U+699D
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 榝
HTML Hex Encoding 榝
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE6 0xA6 0x9D
UTF-16 Encoding 0x699D
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000699D
C/C++/Java Escape \u699d

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

kCNS1986 E-474E
kCNS1992 3-474E
kCangjie DKDE
kCantonese saat3
kFanqie 所八
kGB3 3324
kHanYu 21266.010
kHanyuPinyin 21266.010:shā,xiè
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 21266.010
kIRGKangXi 0543.200
kIRG_GSource G3-4138
kIRG_JSource JMJ-014452
kIRG_TSource T3-474E
kJapanese サツ セツ サチ セチ くさび ごしゆゆ
kKangXi 0543.200
kMandarin shā
kMojiJoho MJ014452
kMorohashi 49176
kPhonetic 1111
kRSUnicode 75.10
kSimplifiedVariant "𬂮" U+2C0AE CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kTotalStrokes 14
kZVariant U+6A27