U+6A1A "樚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+6A1A "樚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a logogram used in written Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, where it represents a specific concept within the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) ideographic script. Its primary meaning is a windlass or pulley, often associated with a device for drawing water from a well, such as a well sweep or a winch mechanism. This character is composed of the wood radical on the left, indicating its connection to wooden objects, and the phonetic component "鹿" on the right, which provides a clue to its pronunciation, read as "lù" in Mandarin Chinese. While not among the most frequently used characters in modern Standard Chinese, it appears in classical texts and technical descriptions of traditional machinery, reflecting its historical significance in agricultural and engineering contexts. The character belongs to the CJK Unified Ideographs block in Unicode, encompassing symbols from ancient to contemporary East Asian writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+6A1A
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	樚
HTML Hex Encoding	樚
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE6 0xA8 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding	0x6A1A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00006A1A
C/C++/Java Escape	\u6a1a

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	224047
kCNS1986	E-4C4A
kCNS1992	3-4C4A
kCangjie	DIXP
kCantonese	luk6
kCihaiT	719.509
kDaeJaweon	0938.080
kDefinition	a pulley, a windlass, a wheel, a block
kGB5	3742
kHanYu	21283.150
kHanyuPinyin	21283.150:lù,dú
kIRGDaeJaweon	0938.080
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	21283.150
kIRGKangXi	0550.130
kIRG_GSource	G5-454A
kIRG_HSource	H-97F9
kIRG_JSource	J14-2F4C
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-4D07
kIRG_KSource	K2-3C69
kIRG_TSource	T3-4C4A
kJapanese	ロク トク ドク
kJIS0213	2,15,44
kJapaneseKun	ROKURO HAKO
kJapaneseOn	ROKU TOKU DOKU
kJis1	3688
kKangXi	0550.130
kMandarin	lù
kMatthews	4206
kMojiJoho	MJ014433
kMorohashi	15443
kPhonetic	848*
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+17852+75.4.11 C+17852+198.11.4
kRSUnicode	75.11
kSemanticVariant	U+8F46<kMatthews
kTotalStrokes	15
kUnihanCore2020	H