U+515B "兛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
兛
U+515B "兛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily used as a unit symbol for the kilogram in Japanese contexts, where it is known as the "kiroguramu" or "kiro" kanji, combining the radical for "legs" or "to support" with a phonetic element to represent the metric weight. Originating from Japan's adoption of the metric system, this character is a relatively rare and unique ideograph that was created by repurposing existing CJK components rather than being derived from classical Chinese usage. It serves as a specialized character for scientific and technical writing, appearing in contexts such as weight measurements on packaging or in documentation, though it is not widely used in modern standard Chinese.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+515B |
| 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 | 兛 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 兛 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x85 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x515B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000515B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u515b |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A25A |
| kCCCII | 216952 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-227A |
| kCNS1992 | 1-227A |
| kCangjie | JUHJ |
| kCantonese | cin1 |
| kCihaiT | 140.303 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0265.250 |
| kDefinition | kilogram |
| kEACC | 216952 |
| kHanYu | 10273.101 |
| kIICore | AT |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0265.250 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10273.101 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0125.191 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-315A |
| kIRG_HSource | HB0-A25A |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-007250 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-227A |
| kJapanese | キログラム |
| kKangXi | 0125.191 |
| kKorean | CHEN |
| kMandarin | qiān |
| kMojiJoho | MJ007250 |
| kMorohashi | 01383 |
| kPhonetic | 430 |
| kRSUnicode | 10.8 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 8098 |
| kTotalStrokes | 10 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |
| kXerox | 272:052 |