U+5188 "冈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
冈
U+5188 "冈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "ridge" or "hill," often referring to a low mountain or a raised, hummock-like landform, and it is a simplified form of the traditional character "岡." It is used in modern Standard Chinese as part of common words such as "山冈" (shān gāng, meaning hill) and appears in place names and personal names across East Asia. This character belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideographs block, where it is encoded as a distinct logogram for written communication, carrying specific semantic and phonetic functions in the languages that adopt it.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5188 |
| 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 | 冈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 冈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x86 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5188 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005188 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5188 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 273B6E |
| kCangjie | BK |
| kCantonese | gong1 |
| kDefinition | ridge or crest of hill |
| kEACC | 273B6E |
| kFourCornerCode | 7722 |
| kGB0 | 2452 |
| kHanYu | 10097.030 |
| kHanyuPinlu | gāng(37) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10097.030 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0128.351 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3854 |
| kIRG_HSource | H-C8A2 |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-007306 |
| kIRG_TSource | T4-2152 |
| kJapanese | モウ |
| kTGH | 2013:115 |
| kKangXi | 0128.351 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 1481 |
| kMandarin | gāng |
| kMojiJoho | MJ007306 |
| kMorohashi | 28201 |
| kPhonetic | 657 |
| kRSUnicode | 13.2 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 50.01 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 107.110:gāng |
| kTotalStrokes | 4 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "岡" U+5CA1 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GH |
| kXHC1983 | 0360.040:gāng |