This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Han script. The Unihan Database defines it as a brush for washing kitchen utensils, a bamboo ware for holding rice used in ancient times, a basket for washing rice, a small bucket for chopsticks, (same as 梢) the tip of a branch or things of similar shape, the end of something, the rudder, (interchangeable 筲). Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is shāo.
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+4230 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.
Representations
System
Representation (click value to copy)
Nº
16944
UTF-8
E4 88 B0
UTF-16
42 30
UTF-32
00 00 42 30
URL-Quoted
%E4%88%B0
HTML hex reference
䈰
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake
䈰
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)
82 32 DE 35
Pīnyīn
shāo
RFC 5137
\u'4230'
Bash and Zsh inside echo -e
\u4230
C and C++
\u4230
C#
\u4230
CSS
\004230
Excel
=UNICHAR(16944)
Go
\u4230
JavaScript
\u4230
Modern JavaScript since ES6
\u{4230}
JSON
\u4230
Java
\u4230
Lua
\u{4230}
Matlab
char(16944)
Perl
"\x{4230}"
PHP
\u{4230}
PostgreSQL
U&'\4230'
PowerShell
`u{4230}
Python
\u4230
Ruby
\u{4230}
Rust
\u{4230}
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a brush for washing kitchen utensils, a bamboo ware for holding rice used in ancient times, a basket for washing rice, a small bucket for chopsticks, (same as 梢) the tip of a branch or things of similar shape, the end of something, the rudder, (interchangeable 筲)