U+96BB "隻" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
隻
U+96BB "隻" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that primarily functions as a measure word for one of a pair, such as a shoe, glove, or wing, and also means "single" or "alone" in compound words like "只有" (only) or "一隻狗" (one dog). It is composed of the radical "隹" (short-tailed bird) and the semantic component "又" (hand), suggesting the ancient idea of holding a single bird in the hand. While simplified Chinese merges its usage with the character "只" (U+53EA), which covers the meaning of "only" and "measure word," "隻" remains widely used in Traditional Chinese, Japanese (as "seki" or "tada"), and Korean (as "cheok") for indicating singularity or individual items, particularly in formal or classical contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+96BB |
| 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 | 隻 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 隻 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0x9A 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x96BB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000096BB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u96bb |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B0A6 |
| kCCCII | 215F3E |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5869 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5869 |
| kCangjie | OGE |
| kCantonese | zek3 |
| kCihaiT | 1436.303 |
| kCowles | 175 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1867.260 |
| kDefinition | single, one of pair, lone; measure word |
| kEACC | 215F3E |
| kFanqie | 之石 |
| kFenn | 52A |
| kFennIndex | 66.03 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2040.7 |
| kGB1 | 8902 |
| kGradeLevel | 1 |
| kGSR | 1260c |
| kHangul | 척:0N |
| kHanYu | 64090.100 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 64090.100:huò,zhī |
| kHKGlyph | 4407 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1867.260 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 64090.100 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1364.090 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-7922 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B0A6 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4049 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-EDA6 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-7434 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5869 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-6B40 |
| kJapanese | セキ シャク ひとつ |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | HITOTSU |
| kJapaneseOn | SEKI |
| kJis0 | 3241 |
| kKangXi | 1364.090 |
| kKorean | CHEK |
| kLau | 1374 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 7156 |
| kMandarin | zhī |
| kMatthews | 967 |
| kMeyerWempe | 197 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ027711 MJ027711:E0102 MJ027712:E0103 |
| kMorohashi | 41941:E0103 |
| kNelson | 5028 |
| kPhonetic | 100 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2669+29.2.8 C+2669+172.8.2 V+13877+29.2.8 V+13877+172.8.2 |
| kRSUnicode | 172.2 |
| kSBGY | 518.20 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "只" U+53EA CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 756.02 85.04 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | zhī粵zek3 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 7156 |
| kTotalStrokes | 10 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | chiếc |
| kXerox | 242:373 |
| kXHC1983 | 1480.061:zhī |