U+4E79 "乹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
乹
U+4E79 "乹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that is a variant form of the more common character "乾" (qián), which is associated with the concept of heaven, male principle, or creative energy in the context of the I Ching and traditional Chinese cosmology. This specific glyph "乹" appears in historical texts and some modern fonts as an alternative graphical representation, though it is less frequently used in standard modern Chinese writing. Its inclusion in the CJK Unified Ideographs block allows for the encoding of variant characters that are essential for accurately representing classical literature and specialized typographic needs.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+4E79 |
| 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 | 乹 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 乹 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE4 0xB9 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x4E79 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00004E79 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u4e79 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 33304C |
| kCNS1986 | E-2B23 |
| kCNS1992 | 3-2B23 |
| kCangjie | XJJU |
| kCantonese | kin4 |
| kCihaiT | 56.201 |
| kCowles | 1760 |
| kDefinition | (Cant.) to clean; dried up |
| kEACC | 33304C |
| kHangul | 건:N |
| kHanYu | 10056.010 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10056.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0084.210 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-3038 |
| kIRG_JSource | J1-303B |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-345E |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-2143 |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-2B23 |
| kJapanese | カン ケン かわく |
| kKoreanName | 2018 |
| kJapaneseKun | KAWAKU KAWAKASU |
| kJapaneseOn | KAN KEN |
| kJis1 | 1627 |
| kKangXi | 0084.210 |
| kMandarin | gān |
| kMeyerWempe | 1229 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ006421 |
| kMorohashi | 00194 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+19143+5.1.8 |
| kRSUnicode | 5.8 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+4E7E<kMorohashi:TZ |
| kTotalStrokes | 9 |