U+6B36 "欶" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

欶

U+6B36 "欶" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily carries the meaning of "to suck" or "to inhale," often used in classical or literary contexts to describe drawing in air or liquid through the mouth. It is composed of the radical 欠 (qiàn), which relates to actions involving the mouth or breathing, combined with the phonetic component 束 (shù). This character appears infrequently in modern standard Chinese but can be found in historical texts, poetic language, or specialized vocabularies. Its usage highlights the nuanced evolution of logographic writing within the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) character set.

General Properties

Code Point	U+6B36
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	欶
HTML Hex Encoding	欶
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE6 0xAC 0xB6
UTF-16 Encoding	0x6B36
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00006B36
C/C++/Java Escape	\u6b36

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	D5D6
kCCCII	224428
kCNS1986	2-363A
kCNS1992	2-363A
kCangjie	DLNO
kCantonese	sok3
kCihaiT	729.403
kCowles	3979
kDaeJaweon	0956.160
kDefinition	to suck in
kFanqie	蘇奏所角
kFenn	502P
kFennIndex	464.07
kFourCornerCode	5798.2
kGB3	4636
kGSR	1222o
kHanYu	32139.100
kHanyuPinyin	32139.100:shuò,sòu
kIRGDaeJaweon	0956.160
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	32139.100
kIRGKangXi	0568.030
kIRG_GSource	G3-4E44
kIRG_HSource	HB2-D5D6
kIRG_JSource	J1-456E
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-4EA4
kIRG_KSource	K2-3E3B
kIRG_TSource	T2-363A
kJapanese	サクシュシュクソクソウ
kJapaneseKun	SUU
kJapaneseOn	SAKU SHUKU SUKU
kJis1	3778
kKangXi	0568.030
kMandarin	shuò
kMeyerWempe	2756
kMojiJoho	MJ014771
kMorohashi	16086
kPhonetic	309 1230
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+21819+76.4.7
kRSUnicode	76.7
kSBGY	439.07 465.01
kSemanticVariant	U+20CBF<kFenn
kTotalStrokes	11
kUnihanCore2020	HMT