U+76CD "盍" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
盍
U+76CD "盍" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily serves as a classical Chinese particle or adverb, often meaning "why not" or expressing a rhetorical suggestion in literary texts. It is composed of the radical 皿 (vessel or dish) and other phonetic or semantic components, reflecting its historical usage in phrases like 盍各言爾志, meaning "why not each speak of your ambitions" from the Analects of Confucius. Beyond this function, it can also appear as a surname or in compound words, though it is considered less common in modern Mandarin and more frequently encountered in classical or formal writings.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+76CD |
| 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 | 盍 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 盍 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0x9B 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x76CD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000076CD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u76cd |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | AF72 |
| kCCCII | 214D34 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5675 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5675 |
| kCangjie | GIBT |
| kCantonese | hap6 |
| kCihaiT | 939.201 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1209.010 |
| kDefinition | what? why not? |
| kEACC | 214D34 |
| kFanqie | 胡臘 |
| kFenn | 45G |
| kFennIndex | 156.03 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4010.7 |
| kGB0 | 7833 |
| kGB1 | 7833 |
| kGSR | 0642n |
| kHangul | 합:1N |
| kHanYu | 42559.040 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 42559.040:hé,kě |
| kHKGlyph | 2720 |
| kIICore | AGTH |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1209.010 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42559.040 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0794.020 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-6E41 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-AF72 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-6234 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-5D41 |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-732A |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5675 |
| kJapanese | コウ カツ ゴウ カチ カイ おおう なんぞ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:4426 |
| kJapaneseKun | OOU NANZO |
| kJapaneseOn | KOU GOU |
| kJis0 | 6620 |
| kKangXi | 0794.020 |
| kKarlgren | 75 |
| kKorean | HAP |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 4137 |
| kMandarin | hé |
| kMatthews | 2119 |
| kMeyerWempe | 805b |
| kMojiJoho | MJ018082 |
| kMorohashi | 22980 |
| kPhonetic | 508 519 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+5801+108.5.5 |
| kRSUnicode | 108.5 |
| kSBGY | 536.50 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+76C7<kMatthews |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 456.10 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | hé粵hap6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 4137 |
| kTang | hɑp |
| kTGHZ2013 | 134.090:hé |
| kTotalStrokes | 10 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJMT |
| kXerox | 270:306 |
| kXHC1983 | 0449.020:hé |