U+4BCA CJK Unified Ideo­graph-​4BCA

U+4BCA was added to Unicode in version 3.0 (1999). It belongs to the block U+3400 to U+4DBF CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Han script. The Unihan Database defines it as the pelvis, bone stuck in the throat, the kneecap; patella; the five lowest pieces of bone of the spinal column. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is qià.

The glyph is not a composition. It has a Wide East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Left To Right and is not mirrored. In text U+4BCA behaves as Ideographic regarding line breaks. It has type Other Letter for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.