Cjk Ideograph-638c

U+638C
BMP Unicode 1.1
Character
Decimal 掌
Hex 掌

Classification

Unicode properties assigned to this character by the Unicode Consortium. The codepoint is its unique numeric identifier. Category, block, and script determine how text systems render and process it.

Codepoint
U+638C
Decimal
25484
Plane
BMP — Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Other Letter (Lo)
Script
Han
Bidi class
L Left-to-Right
East Asian Width
W Wide
Properties
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Encodings & Escape Sequences

Every Unicode character can be represented in multiple ways depending on context. HTML entities let you embed it safely in web pages. UTF-8 bytes are what gets stored on disk and sent over the network. Escape sequences let you reference it in source code without pasting the raw glyph. All formats below refer to the same character — Cjk Ideograph-638c.

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Format Value
HTML Decimal
掌
HTML Hex
掌
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
E6 8E 8C
UTF-16 Hex Bytes
63 8C
UTF-32 Hex
0000638C
CSS Escape
\638C
JavaScript Escape
\u638C
Python Escape
\u638C
URL Encoded
%E6%8E%8C
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Unihan Data

Readings and dictionary data from the Unicode Han Database (Unihan).

Definition
palm of hand, sole of foot, paw
Mandarin (Pinyin)
zhǎng
Cantonese (Jyutping)
zoeng2
Japanese On
SHOU
Japanese Kun
TANAGOKORO TSUKASADORU
Korean
CANG