This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Han script. The Unihan Database defines it as acupuncture, narrow and protrude, (non-classical form of 拶) a torture device in old China consisting of several contracting wooden sticks, in between which the fingers of a suspect are placed and pressed to extort confessions. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is yā.
The glyph is not a composition. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+4198 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.
Representations
System
Representation (click value to copy)
Nº
16792
UTF-8
E4 86 98
UTF-16
41 98
UTF-32
00 00 41 98
URL-Quoted
%E4%86%98
HTML hex reference
䆘
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake
䆘
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)
82 32 CF 33
Pīnyīn
yā
RFC 5137
\u'4198'
Bash and Zsh inside echo -e
\u4198
C and C++
\u4198
C#
\u4198
CSS
\004198
Excel
=UNICHAR(16792)
Go
\u4198
JavaScript
\u4198
Modern JavaScript since ES6
\u{4198}
JSON
\u4198
Java
\u4198
Lua
\u{4198}
Matlab
char(16792)
Perl
"\x{4198}"
PHP
\u{4198}
PostgreSQL
U&'\4198'
PowerShell
`u{4198}
Python
\u4198
Ruby
\u{4198}
Rust
\u{4198}
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acupuncture, narrow and protrude, (non-classical form of 拶) a torture device in old China consisting of several contracting wooden sticks, in between which the fingers of a suspect are placed and pressed to extort confessions