U+9A73 "驳" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
驳
U+9A73 "驳" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means to refute, contradict, or argue against an idea or statement, and it also carries the older sense of a patchy or mixed color pattern, often used to describe a horse with a dappled coat. In modern Mandarin, it is commonly used in formal and informal contexts to denote challenging or rebutting an opinion, as in the words 反驳 (refute) and 驳斥 (denounce). Historically, its composition combines the radical for horse (马) with the phonetic component 爻, reflecting its original concrete meaning before it evolved to its more common abstract usage in debate and logic.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9A73 |
| 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 | 驳 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 驳 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xA9 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9A73 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009A73 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9a73 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 276132 |
| kCangjie | NMKK |
| kCantonese | bok3 |
| kDefinition | varicolored, variegated; mixed |
| kEACC | 276132 |
| kFourCornerCode | 7414 |
| kGB0 | 1821 |
| kHanYu | 74544.100 |
| kHanyuPinlu | bó(26) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74544.100 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1447.241 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3235 |
| kTGH | 2013:935 |
| kKangXi | 1447.241 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 7463 |
| kMandarin | bó |
| kPhonetic | 553* |
| kRSUnicode | 187'.4 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 026.140:bó |
| kTotalStrokes | 7 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "駁" U+99C1 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0084.140:bó |