U+4E3C "丼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
丼
U+4E3C "丼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that originally depicted a well or a pit, with its ancient form showing a square enclosure (口) around a central dot or line representing water, symbolizing a water well. In modern usage, it is most famously employed in Japanese cuisine to denote a donburi, a bowl of rice topped with ingredients like beef, chicken, or seafood, as seen in terms such as gyudon. The character carries a sense of depth and containment, bridging an ancient pictographic meaning with a contemporary culinary identity across East Asian languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+4E3C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Block | CJK Unified Ideographs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 丼 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 丼 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE4 0xB8 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x4E3C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00004E3C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u4e3c |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C964 |
| kCCCII | 216432 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-2144 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-2144 |
| kCangjie | TTI |
| kCantonese | zeng2 |
| kCihaiT | 46.501 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0164.010 |
| kDefinition | bowl of food; well |
| kEACC | 2D3053 |
| kFanqie | 都感 子郢 |
| kFourCornerCode | 5500.0 |
| kGSR | 0819e |
| kHanYu | 10045.010 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10045.010:jǐng,dǎn |
| kIICore | BTJ |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0164.010 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10045.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0081.010 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-302B |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-C964 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-5027 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-3431 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-212E |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-2144 |
| kJapanese | セイ タン トン ショウ どんぶり どん |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kJapaneseKun | DONBURI |
| kJapaneseOn | SEI TAN SHOU |
| kJis0 | 4807 |
| kKangXi | 0081.010 |
| kKorean | CENG |
| kMandarin | jǐng |
| kMojiJoho | MJ006364 |
| kMorohashi | 00101 |
| kNelson | 0171 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+4096+3.1.4 |
| kRSUnicode | 3.4 |
| kSBGY | 318.40 |
| kSpecializedSemanticVariant | U+4E95 |
| kTotalStrokes | 5 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJMT |