U+6398 "掘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
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U+6398 "掘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily meaning "to dig" or "to excavate," commonly used in words related to digging into the earth, such as 挖掘 (wājué), which translates to "excavation" or "to unearth." It is built from the radical 扌, indicating an action involving the hand, combined with the phonetic component 屈, which suggests a bending or curving motion. This character appears in various contexts, including archaeology, mining, and figurative expressions like 发掘 (fājué), meaning "to discover or unearth something hidden." In Japanese, it is read as "horu" in kun'yomi and "kutsu" in on'yomi, retaining a similar semantic range.
General Properties
Code Point
U+6398
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
掘
HTML Hex Encoding
掘
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE6 0x8E 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding
0x6398
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00006398
C/C++/Java Escape
\u6398
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Han
Unihan Properties
kBigFive
B1B8
kCCCII
214122
kCNS1986
1-5A5C
kCNS1992
1-5A5C
kCangjie
QSUU
kCantonese
gwat6
kCihaiT
580.402
kCowles
730 2086
kDaeJaweon
0787.100
kDefinition
dig, excavate; excavate cave
kEACC
214122
kFanqie
衢物 其月
kFenn
666E
kFennIndex
121.05
kFourCornerCode
5707.2
kGB0
3082
kGB1
3082
kGradeLevel
2
kGSR
0496s
kHangul
굴:0N
kHanYu
31909.020
kHanyuPinlu
jué(11)
kHanyuPinyin
31909.020:jué,kū
kHKGlyph
1580
kIICore
AGTJHKMP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
31909.020
kIRG_GSource
G0-3E72
kIRG_HSource
HB1-B1B8
kIRG_JSource
J0-3721
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-D1C6
kIRG_KSource
K0-4F5E
kIRG_TSource
T1-5A5C
kIRG_VSource
V1-573A
kJapanese
クツ グチ ケツ ガチ コツ ゴチ セツ ほる
kJoyoKanji
2010
kKoreanName
2015
kTGH
2013:2190
kJapaneseKun
HORU
kJapaneseOn
KUTSU KOTSU
kJis0
2301
kKangXi
0438.020
kKarlgren
493
kKorean
KWUL KWEL
kLau
1044
kMainlandTelegraph
2228
kMandarin
jué
kMatthews
1695
kMeyerWempe
1403
kMojiJoho
MJ012479
kMorohashi
12264
kNelson
1943
kPhonetic
1449
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+1783+64.3.8
kRSUnicode
64.8
kSBGY
476.23 478.44
kSMSZD2003Index
256.05
kSMSZD2003Readings
jué粵gwat6
kTaiwanTelegraph
2228
kTang
ghiuæt ghiuət
kTGHZ2013
188.140:jué
kTotalStrokes
11
kUnihanCore2020
GHJKMPT
kVietnamese
quật
kXerox
253:107
kXHC1983
0620.090:jué