U+936C "鍬" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
鍬
U+936C "鍬" CJK Unified Ideograph is a Chinese character that primarily denotes a hoe or a shovel, specifically a farming tool used for digging or tilling soil. In Japanese, it is known as "kuwa" and also refers to a hoe-like implement, while in Korean, it is read as "choe" and carries similar agricultural connotations. The character is composed of the metal radical (釒) on the left, indicating its association with metal tools, and a phonetic component (秋) on the right. Historically, it appears in classical Chinese texts related to agriculture and craft, and it remains in use across various East Asian writing systems for these tool-related meanings.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+936C |
| 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 | 鍬 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 鍬 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0x8D 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x936C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000936C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u936c |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C1EA |
| kCCCII | 215E23 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7575 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7575 |
| kCangjie | CHDF |
| kCantonese | ciu1 |
| kCihaiT | 1389.602 |
| kCowles | 4774 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1815.130 |
| kDefinition | shovel |
| kEACC | 215E23 |
| kFanqie | 七遙 |
| kFennIndex | 51.08 |
| kFourCornerCode | 8918.0 |
| kGB1 | 3934 |
| kHangul | 초:1N |
| kHanYu | 64231.160 |
| kHanyuPinlu | qiāo(15) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 64231.160:qiāo |
| kHKGlyph | 4291 |
| kIICore | ATJH |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1815.130 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 64231.160 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1315.030 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-4742 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C1EA |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-372D |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-80F7 |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-7021 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7575 |
| kJapanese | シュウ ショウ くわ すき |
| kJinmeiyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | SUKI KUWA |
| kJapaneseOn | SHUU SHOU |
| kJis0 | 2313 |
| kKangXi | 1315.030 |
| kKorean | CHO |
| kLau | 333 |
| kMandarin | qiāo |
| kMeyerWempe | 3401 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ027059 |
| kMorohashi | 40643 |
| kNelson | 4891 |
| kPhonetic | 88 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1795+167.8.9 |
| kRSUnicode | 167.9 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+936B<kMeyerWempe |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "锹" U+9539 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 733.02 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | qiāo粵ciu1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 6942 |
| kTotalStrokes | 17 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJMT |
| kXerox | 264:076 |