U+6491 "撑" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+6491 "撑" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to support" or "to prop up," often used in contexts involving physical support, like holding up an umbrella or bracing a structure, as well as metaphorically for enduring or sustaining something, such as "to keep going" or "to manage" under pressure. It is composed of the radical 扌 (hand) combined with the phonetic component 掌, reflecting its action-oriented meaning of using the hand to push or bear weight. This character appears frequently in everyday vocabulary, including words like 支撑 (zhīchēng, to support) and 撑伞 (chēngsǎn, to hold an umbrella), making it a practical and common element in written and spoken Chinese.
General Properties
Code Point
U+6491
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
撑
HTML Hex Encoding
撑
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE6 0x92 0x91
UTF-16 Encoding
0x6491
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00006491
C/C++/Java Escape
\u6491
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Han
Unihan Properties
kCCCII
2D416C
kCNS1986
E-4C3B
kCNS1992
3-4C3B
kCangjie
QFBQ
kCantonese
caang1
kCihaiT
593.604
kCowles
437
kDaeJaweon
0803.210
kDefinition
prop up, support; brace
kEACC
21416C
kFennIndex
29.05
kFourCornerCode
5905
kGB0
1937
kGB1
1937
kHangul
탱:0N
kHanYu
31957.010
kHanyuPinlu
chēng(25) cheng(17)
kHanyuPinyin
31957.010:chēng
kIICore
AGKP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
31957.010
kIRG_GSource
G0-3345
kIRG_HSource
H-894D
kIRG_JSource
J14-2D4F
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-F0E2
kIRG_KSource
K0-774B
kIRG_TSource
T3-4C3B
kIRG_VSource
V1-575E
kJapanese
トウ ひかえばしら
kKoreanName
2015
kTGH
2013:3196
kJIS0213
2,13,47
kJapaneseKun
SASAERU AKU
kJapaneseOn
CHOU
kJis1
3280
kKangXi
0454.040
kKorean
THAYNG
kLau
186
kMainlandTelegraph
2300
kMandarin
chēng
kMatthews
391
kMeyerWempe
161
kMojiJoho
MJ012757
kMorohashi
12694
kPhonetic
33 114
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+17704+64.3.12
kRSUnicode
64.12
kSemanticVariant
U+6490<kFenn
kSimplifiedVariant
kSMSZD2003Index
268.04
kSMSZD2003Readings
chēng粵caang1
kTaiwanTelegraph
8427
kTGHZ2013
043.070:chēng
kTotalStrokes
15
kTraditionalVariant
kUnihanCore2020
GHKP
kVietnamese
xênh
kXHC1983
0134.090:chēng