U+4E81 "亁" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+4E81 "亁" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily associated with the concept of dryness or the sun’s heat, as it is a variant form of the more common character "乾" (qián or gān). Within the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideograph block, this character is used in traditional texts and names, often appearing in the context of the I Ching’s hexagram representing heaven or masculine energy, though in modern usage it is less frequent than its standard counterpart. Its structure combines the radical "十" (ten) with other components to convey meanings related to the sun’s force or the completion of a cycle, reflecting its historical role in classical Chinese literature and calligraphy.

General Properties

Code Point	U+4E81
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	亁
HTML Hex Encoding	亁
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE4 0xBA 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding	0x4E81
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00004E81
C/C++/Java Escape	\u4e81

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Ideographic
East Asian Width	Wide
Script	Han
Script Extensions	Han
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	OLetter
Ideographic	Yes
Unified Ideograph	Yes

Unihan Properties

kCCCII	39304C
kCNS1986	E-396E
kCNS1992	3-396E
kCangjie	JJON
kCantonese	gon1
kDaeJaweon	0173.070
kDefinition	dry; dried, as opposed to fresh
kEACC	39304C
kFennIndex	237.06
kHanYu	10057.070
kHanyuPinyin	10057.070:gān
kIRGDaeJaweon	0173.070
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10057.070
kIRGKangXi	0084.321
kIRG_GSource	GE-303A
kIRG_HSource	H-89CF
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-006425
kIRG_TSource	T3-396E
kJapanese	ケン
kJapaneseOn	KEN
kKangXi	0084.321
kKorean	KEN KAN
kMandarin	gān
kMojiJoho	MJ006425
kMorohashi	00213
kRSUnicode	5.11
kSemanticVariant	U+4E7E<kMorohashi:TZ
kSpecializedSemanticVariant	U+4E7E<kFenn
kTotalStrokes	12
kUnihanCore2020	H