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Glyph for U+69CD
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U+69CD CJK Unified Ideo­graph-​69CD

U+69CD was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block U+4E00 to U+9FFF CJK Unified Ideographs 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 spear, lance; gun, rifle. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is qiāng.

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+69CD behaves as Ideographic regarding line breaks. It has type Other Letter for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Qiang (pronunciation: [tɕʰjáŋ], English approximation: chyahng, simplified Chinese: 枪; traditional Chinese: 槍; pinyin: qiāng) is the Chinese term for spear. Due to its relative ease of manufacture, the spear in many variations was ubiquitous on the pre-modern Chinese battlefield. It is known as one of the four major weapons, along with the gun (staff), dao (sabre), and the jian (straight sword), called in this group "The King of Weapons".

Common features of the Chinese spear are the leaf-shaped blade and red horse-hair tassel lashed just below. The tassel shows elite troop status. It also serves a tactical purpose. When the spear is moving quickly, the addition of the tassel aids in blurring the vision of the opponent so that it is more difficult for them to grab the shaft of spear behind the head or tip. The tassel also served another purpose, to stop the flow of blood from the blade getting to the wooden shaft (the blood would make it slippery, or sticky when dried).

The length varied from around 2.5 m (8 ft 2 in) long, up to 6 m (20 ft) in length. According to general Qi Jiguang, the Ming military categorized spears above 2.5 m (8 ft 2 in) as short spears, 4 m (13 ft) as long spears, and spears below 2.5 m (8 ft 2 in) as spiked staffs, which were used more for hitting than stabbing. Spears used in war are typically made of hardwood. Martial arts (wushu) spears are typically made of wax wood, a lighter and more flexible wood better suited for performance; these are called flower spears.

Many Chinese martial arts feature spear training in their curriculum. The conditioning provided by the spear technique is seen as invaluable and in many styles, it is the first weapons training introduced to students. Moreover, some schools of empty-handed fighting in China credit the spear technique as their foundation, notably Xingyiquan and Bajiquan.

Representations

System Representation
27085
UTF-8 E6 A7 8D
UTF-16 69 CD
UTF-32 00 00 69 CD
URL-Quoted %E6%A7%8D
HTML hex reference 槍
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake 槍
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) F3 E6
Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) C1 E4
Pīnyīn qiāng

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-69CD
Unicode 1 Name
Block CJK Unified Ideographs
General Category Other Letter
Script Han
Bidirectional Category Left To Right
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type None
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+69CD CJK Unified Ideograph-69CD
Lowercase
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+69CD CJK Unified Ideograph-69CD
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+69CD CJK Unified Ideograph-69CD
Uppercase
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+69CD CJK Unified Ideograph-69CD
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+69CD CJK Unified Ideograph-69CD
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+69CD CJK Unified Ideograph-69CD
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+69CD CJK Unified Ideograph-69CD
Case Folding Glyph for U+69CD CJK Unified Ideograph-69CD
ASCII Hex Digit
Alphabetic
Bidi Control
Bidi Mirrored
Composition Exclusion
Case Ignorable
Changes When Casefolded
Changes When Casemapped
Changes When NFKC Casefolded
Changes When Lowercased
Changes When Titlecased
Changes When Uppercased
Cased
Full Composition Exclusion
Default Ignorable Code Point
Dash
Deprecated
Diacritic
Emoji Modifier Base
Emoji Component
Emoji Modifier
Emoji Presentation
Emoji
Extender
Extended Pictographic
FC NFKC Closure Glyph for U+69CD CJK Unified Ideograph-69CD
Grapheme Cluster Break Any
Grapheme Base
Grapheme Extend
Grapheme Link
Hex Digit
Hyphen
ID Continue
ID Start
IDS Binary Operator
IDS Trinary Operator and
IDSU 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start 0
Ideographic
InCB None
Indic Mantra Category
Indic Positional Category NA
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Jamo Short Name
Join Control
Logical Order Exception
Math
Noncharacter Code Point
NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Casefold Glyph for U+69CD CJK Unified Ideograph-69CD
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKC_SCF Glyph for U+69CD CJK Unified Ideograph-69CD
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Other Alphabetic
Other Default Ignorable Code Point
Other Grapheme Extend
Other ID Continue
Other ID Start
Other Lowercase
Other Math
Other Uppercase
Prepended Concatenation Mark
Pattern Syntax
Pattern White Space
Quotation Mark
Regional Indicator
Radical
Sentence Break Other Letter
Soft Dotted
Sentence Terminal
Terminal Punctuation
Unified Ideograph
Variation Selector
Word Break Other
White Space
XID Continue
XID Start
Expands On NFC
Expands On NFD
Expands On NFKC
Expands On NFKD
Bidi Paired Bracket Glyph for U+69CD CJK Unified Ideograph-69CD
Bidi Paired Bracket Type None
East Asian Width Wide
Hangul Syllable Type Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment
Joining Group No_Joining_Group
Joining Type Non Joining
Line Break Ideographic
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value not a number
Simple Case Folding Glyph for U+69CD CJK Unified Ideograph-69CD
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation U
Big Five Mapping BA6A
CCCII Mapping 214540
CNS 11643-1986 Mapping 1-6933
CNS 11643-1992 Mapping 1-6933
Cangjie Input Code DOIR
kCantonese coeng1
kCihaiT 713.502
kCowles 4735
kDaeJaweon 0934.010
Unihan Definition spear, lance; gun, rifle
kEACC 214540
kFenn 679F
kFennIndex 46.06
kFourCornerCode 4896.7
kFrequency 4
kGB1 3925
kGSR 0703i
kGradeLevel 2
kHKGlyph 1984
kHanYu 21266.050
kHangul 창:0N
kHanyuPinlu qiāng(386)
kHanyuPinyin 21266.050:qiāng,chēng,qiǎng
kIICore ATJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon 0934.010
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 21266.050
kIRGKangXi 0546.090
kIRG_GSource G1-4739
kIRG_HSource HB1-BA6A
kIRG_JSource J0-4164
kIRG_KPSource KP0-ECE9
kIRG_KSource K0-7366
kIRG_TSource T1-6933
kIRG_VSource V1-5A50
kJapanese ソウ ショウ やり
kJapaneseKun YARI
kJapaneseOn SOU SHOU
kJinmeiyoKanji 2010
kJis0 3368
kKangXi 0546.090
kKorean CHANG CAYNG
kKoreanName 2015
kLau 259
kMandarin qiāng
kMatthews 680
kMeyerWempe 3333
kMojiJoho MJ014342
kMorohashi 15319
kNelson 2342
kPhonetic 254
Radical Stroke Count (Adobe Japan 1-6) C+2790+75.4.10
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode) 75.10
kSBGY 176.46 185.24
kSMSZD2003Index 329.01
kSMSZD2003Readings qiāng粵coeng1
Simplified Variant Glyph for U+67AA U+67AA
Taiwanese Telegraph Code 2847
kTang tsiɑng
Stroke Number 14
UnihanCore2020 Set HJKMPT
Quốc ngữ Pronunciation thương
kXHC1983 0916.101:qiāng
Xerox Code 245:347