U+76CD "盍" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+76CD "盍" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily serves as a classical Chinese particle or adverb, often meaning "why not" or expressing a rhetorical suggestion in literary texts. It is composed of the radical 皿 (vessel or dish) and other phonetic or semantic components, reflecting its historical usage in phrases like 盍各言爾志, meaning "why not each speak of your ambitions" from the Analects of Confucius. Beyond this function, it can also appear as a surname or in compound words, though it is considered less common in modern Mandarin and more frequently encountered in classical or formal writings.
General Properties
Code Point
U+76CD
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
盍
HTML Hex Encoding
盍
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE7 0x9B 0x8D
UTF-16 Encoding
0x76CD
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000076CD
C/C++/Java Escape
\u76cd
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Han
Unihan Properties
kBigFive
AF72
kCCCII
214D34
kCNS1986
1-5675
kCNS1992
1-5675
kCangjie
GIBT
kCantonese
hap6
kCihaiT
939.201
kDaeJaweon
1209.010
kDefinition
what? why not?
kEACC
214D34
kFanqie
胡臘
kFenn
45G
kFennIndex
156.03
kFourCornerCode
4010.7
kGB0
7833
kGB1
7833
kGSR
0642n
kHangul
합:1N
kHanYu
42559.040
kHanyuPinyin
42559.040:hé,kě
kHKGlyph
2720
kIICore
AGTH
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
42559.040
kIRG_GSource
G0-6E41
kIRG_HSource
HB1-AF72
kIRG_JSource
J0-6234
kIRG_KPSource
KP1-5D41
kIRG_KSource
K1-732A
kIRG_TSource
T1-5675
kJapanese
コウ カツ ゴウ カチ カイ おおう なんぞ
kKoreanName
2015
kTGH
2013:4426
kJapaneseKun
OOU NANZO
kJapaneseOn
KOU GOU
kJis0
6620
kKangXi
0794.020
kKarlgren
75
kKorean
HAP
kMainlandTelegraph
4137
kMandarin
hé
kMatthews
2119
kMeyerWempe
805b
kMojiJoho
MJ018082
kMorohashi
22980
kPhonetic
508 519
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+5801+108.5.5
kRSUnicode
108.5
kSBGY
536.50
kSemanticVariant
U+76C7<kMatthews
kSMSZD2003Index
456.10
kSMSZD2003Readings
hé粵hap6
kTaiwanTelegraph
4137
kTang
hɑp
kTGHZ2013
134.090:hé
kTotalStrokes
10
kUnihanCore2020
GHJMT
kXerox
270:306
kXHC1983
0449.020:hé