U+516C "公" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
公
U+516C "公" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a foundational Chinese character commonly meaning "public," "official," "fair," or "male," and it appears extensively in East Asian languages including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Its visual structure combines the radical for "eight" above a component resembling a "private" enclosure, which scholars often interpret as the act of making private matters open or shared, thus embodying the concept of communal or just governance. In modern usage, it forms the core of terms like "gōngsī" (company) and "gōngyuán" (park), and it holds historical significance as a mark of nobility in titles such as "Duke" or "Lord," particularly in ancient Chinese honorifics.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+516C |
| 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 | 公 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 公 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x85 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x516C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000516C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u516c |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A4BD |
| kCCCII | 213327 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-447C |
| kCNS1992 | 1-447C |
| kCangjie | CI |
| kCantonese | gung1 |
| kCihaiT | 151.301 |
| kCowles | 1878 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0277.010 |
| kDefinition | fair, equitable; public; duke |
| kEACC | 213327 |
| kFanqie | 古紅 |
| kFenn | 392B |
| kFennIndex | 277.02 |
| kFourCornerCode | 8073.2 |
| kGB0 | 2511 |
| kGB1 | 2511 |
| kGradeLevel | 1 |
| kGSR | 1173a |
| kHangul | 공:0E |
| kHanYu | 10242.010 |
| kHanyuPinlu | gōng(1289) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10242.010:gōng |
| kHKGlyph | 0285 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0277.010 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10242.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0126.280 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-392B |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A4BD |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3878 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-D0B7 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-4D6B |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-447C |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-4C48 |
| kJapanese | コウ ク ショウ シュ おおやけ きみ |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:148 |
| kJapaneseKun | OOYAKE KIMI |
| kJapaneseOn | KOU |
| kJis0 | 2488 |
| kKangXi | 0126.280 |
| kKarlgren | 475 |
| kKorean | KONG |
| kLau | 996 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0361 |
| kMandarin | gōng |
| kMatthews | 3701 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1332 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ007275 MJ007275:E0102 MJ007276:E0103 |
| kMorohashi | 01452:E0103 |
| kNelson | 0579 |
| kPhonetic | 687 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1964+12.2.2 C+1964+28.2.2 V+13440+12.2.2 V+13440+28.2.2 |
| kRSUnicode | 12.2 |
| kSBGY | 027.39 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 47.04 81.17 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | gōng粵gung1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0361 |
| kTang | *gung gung |
| kTGHZ2013 | 113.150:gōng |
| kTotalStrokes | 4 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | công |
| kXerox | 241:313 |
| kXHC1983 | 0383.020:gōng |