U+4E7E "乾" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
乾
U+4E7E "乾" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character with rich meanings, most commonly associated with the concept of "heaven" or "sky" and representing the first of the Eight Trigrams in the I Ching, symbolizing creativity, strength, and the masculine or yang principle. It can also refer to "dry" or "drought" in certain contexts, and it appears in the word "乾坤" (qián kūn), which denotes the cosmos or the universe, encompassing both heaven and earth. In Japanese, it is used in the Kanji character "乾" to mean "dry" as in "乾杯" (kanpai, meaning "cheers" or "dry cup") and appears in names and historical texts, reflecting its role in East Asian philosophy and daily language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+4E7E |
| 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 | 乾 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 乾 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE4 0xB9 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x4E7E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00004E7E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u4e7e |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B0AE |
| kCCCII | 21304C |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5871 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5871 |
| kCangjie | JJON |
| kCantonese | kin4 |
| kCihaiT | 56.202 |
| kCowles | 1759 1976 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0172.010 |
| kDefinition | dry; warming principle of the sun, penetrating and fertilizing, heavenly generative principle (male); trigram ☰; hexagram ䷀ |
| kEACC | 21304C |
| kFanqie | 古寒 渠焉 |
| kFenn | 17A |
| kFennIndex | 64.08 237.06 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4841.7 |
| kGB0 | 3912 |
| kGB1 | 3912 |
| kGradeLevel | 3 |
| kGSR | 0140c |
| kHangul | 건:0E |
| kHanYu | 10056.100 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10056.100:qián,gān |
| kHKGlyph | 0043 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0172.010 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10056.100 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0084.250 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-472C |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B0AE |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3425 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-CED2 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-4B6B |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5871 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-4A4B |
| kJapanese | カン ケン ゲン かわく かわかす いぬい |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:2215 |
| kJapaneseKun | KAWAKU KAWAKASU INUI |
| kJapaneseOn | KAN KEN GEN |
| kJis0 | 2005 |
| kKangXi | 0084.250 |
| kKarlgren | 299 |
| kKorean | KAN KEN |
| kLau | 958 1695 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0051 |
| kMandarin | qián gān |
| kMatthews | 3233 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1156a 1229 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ006422 |
| kMorohashi | 00204 |
| kNelson | 0784 |
| kPhonetic | 654 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1505+5.1.10 |
| kRSUnicode | 5.10 |
| kSBGY | 122.38 142.27 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+4E79<kMorohashi:T U+4E81<kMorohashi:T |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "乾" U+4E7E CJK Unified Ideograph-# "干" U+5E72 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 11.01 75.14 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | qián粵kin4 gān粵gon1 |
| kSpecializedSemanticVariant | U+4E81<kFenn |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0051 |
| kTang | *ghyɛn ghyɛn gɑn |
| kTGHZ2013 | 296.130:qián |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "乾" U+4E7E CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | kiền |
| kXerox | 315:171 |
| kXHC1983 | 0352.091:gān 0913.050:qián |