U+789C "碜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+789C "碜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "gritty" or "having a rough, sandy texture," often used to describe food that contains small, hard particles like sand or gravel. It is commonly used in Mandarin Chinese to indicate an unpleasant sensation when chewing, such as in phrases like "牙碜" (yáchen) meaning "gritty on the teeth." The character is composed of the radical 石 (shí, meaning "stone") and the phonetic component 参 (cān, meaning "to participate" or "uneven"), reflecting its literal and figurative associations with roughness or impurity.

General Properties

Code Point	U+789C
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	碜
HTML Hex Encoding	碜
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0xA2 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding	0x789C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000789C
C/C++/Java Escape	\u789c

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	286577
kCangjie	MRIKH
kCantonese	cam2
kDefinition	gritty
kEACC	286577
kFourCornerCode	1362
kGB0	7755
kHanYu	42441.010
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	42441.010
kIRGKangXi	0832.211
kIRG_GSource	G0-6D57
kIRG_TSource	TF-4425
kTGH	2013:5423
kKangXi	0832.211
kMandarin	chěn
kPhonetic	23
kRSUnicode	112.8
kSMSZD2003Index	473.06
kTGHZ2013	042.090:chěn
kTotalStrokes	13
kTraditionalVariant	"磣" U+78E3 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0133.030:chěn