U+6429 "搩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+6429 "搩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used in traditional texts and modern contexts to represent a specific action or concept, primarily associated with measuring or extending the distance between the thumb and the middle finger, known as a "span" as a unit of length, or to describe the act of stretching out one's hand. It belongs to the Kangxi radical 手 (hand) on the left side, indicating its relation to manual actions, combined with the phonetic component 桀 on the right, which suggests its pronunciation, historically reading as zhé or jié in Mandarin. This character is relatively uncommon in contemporary daily use but appears in classical literature and technical references related to ancient measurement or descriptive gestures.