U+766A "癪" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+766A "癪" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily refers to a condition of muscle spasm or cramp, often associated with a sudden, involuntary contraction, and in traditional Chinese medicine and historical usage, it can denote a type of hysteria or a pain from an obstruction of vital energy, such as a stomach cramp or painful spasms. The character is composed of the radical for illness or disease, 疒, combined with the phonetic component 責, which hints at a sense of blame or pressure, reflecting the idea of a bodily affliction tied to internal stress. While not commonly used in modern everyday writing, it appears in classical Chinese medical texts and remains recognized in certain dialects and specialized vocabulary for describing physical discomfort.

General Properties

Code Point	U+766A
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	癪
HTML Hex Encoding	癪
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0x99 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding	0x766A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000766A
C/C++/Java Escape	\u766a

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	F5DF
kCCCII	226035
kCNS1986	2-6B6D
kCNS1992	2-6B6D
kCangjie	KHDC
kCantonese	zik1
kCheungBauer	104/16;KHDC;zik1
kCheungBauerIndex	441.07
kDaeJaweon	1192.210
kDefinition	spasms, convulsions, hysteria; (Cant.) infantile malnutrition
kEACC	226035
kFourCornerCode	0018.6
kHanYu	42703.141
kIICore	CJ
kIRGDaeJaweon	1192.210
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	42703.141
kIRGKangXi	0783.011
kIRG_GSource	GE-4344
kIRG_HSource	HB2-F5DF
kIRG_JSource	J0-617B
kIRG_KSource	K2-4A42
kIRG_TSource	T2-6B6D
kJapanese	シャク しゃく
kJapaneseKun	SHAKU SASHIKOMI
kJapaneseOn	SHAKU
kJis0	6591
kKangXi	0783.011
kMandarin	jī
kMojiJoho	MJ017963
kMorohashi	22626
kNelson	3086
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+5778+104.5.16
kRSUnicode	104.16
kSimplifiedVariant	"𰣼" U+308FC CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kTotalStrokes	21
kUnihanCore2020	HJMT