U+74DC "瓜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
瓜
U+74DC "瓜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "melon" or "gourd" and is used in various East Asian languages, including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Its form represents a plant with vines and fruits, dating back to ancient oracle bone script, where it was pictographically derived from the shape of a hanging gourd. In modern usage, the character appears in words like "西瓜" for watermelon and "瓜子" for melon seeds, and it also carries metaphorical meanings related to something divided or split, as in the term "瓜分" meaning to partition or carve up.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+74DC |
| 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 | 瓜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 瓜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0x93 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x74DC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000074DC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u74dc |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A5CA |
| kCCCII | 214B6C |
| kCNS1986 | 1-466A |
| kCNS1992 | 1-466A |
| kCangjie | HVIO |
| kCantonese | gwaa1 |
| kCihaiT | 902.301 |
| kCowles | 2037 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1154.140 |
| kDefinition | melon, gourd, cucumber; Kangxi radical 97 |
| kEACC | 214B6C |
| kFanqie | 古華 |
| kFenn | 407C |
| kFennIndex | 263.07 |
| kFourCornerCode | 7223.0 |
| kGB0 | 2547 |
| kGB1 | 2547 |
| kGradeLevel | 1 |
| kGSR | 0041a |
| kHangul | 과:0N |
| kHanYu | 42654.010 |
| kHanyuPinlu | guā(136) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 42654.010:guā |
| kHDZRadBreak | ⽠[U+2F60]:42654.010 |
| kHKGlyph | 2590 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1154.140 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42654.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0746.010 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-394F |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A5CA |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-313B |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-D3E5 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-4D7E |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-466A |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-5F3B |
| kJapanese | カ うり |
| kJinmeiyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:279 |
| kJapaneseKun | URI |
| kJapaneseOn | KA |
| kJis0 | 1727 |
| kKangXi | 0746.010 |
| kKarlgren | 432 |
| kKorean | KWA |
| kLau | 1009 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 3900 |
| kMandarin | guā |
| kMatthews | 3504 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1346 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ017521 MJ017521:E0102 MJ017520:E0103 MJ017519:E0104 |
| kMorohashi | 21371:E0104 |
| kNelson | 2973 |
| kPhonetic | 696 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1245+97.6.0 V+13648+97.5.0 |
| kRSUnicode | 97.0 |
| kSBGY | 166.04 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 433.12 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | guā粵gwaa1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 3900 |
| kTang | *gua |
| kTGHZ2013 | 119.160:guā |
| kTotalStrokes | 5 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | qua |
| kXerox | 247:246 |
| kXHC1983 | 0402.150:guā |