U+51AC "冬" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
冬
U+51AC "冬" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a logogram representing the Chinese character for "winter," one of the four seasons, and it is used in various East Asian languages including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. This ideograph typically conveys meanings associated with coldness, the end of the year, or the season of dormancy, and it appears in compound words such as "冬至" (winter solstice) or "冬眠" (hibernation). Its structure combines elements that suggest the end or completion of a cycle, reflecting traditional agricultural and cosmological concepts where winter is a time of rest and renewal before the spring.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+51AC |
| 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 | 冬 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 冬 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x86 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x51AC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000051AC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u51ac |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A556 |
| kCCCII | 21333B |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4576 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4576 |
| kCangjie | HEY |
| kCantonese | dung1 |
| kCihaiT | 167.201 |
| kCowles | 4273 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0294.130 |
| kDefinition | winter, 11th lunar month |
| kEACC | 276276 |
| kFanqie | 都宗 |
| kFenn | 541A |
| kFennIndex | 578.04 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2730.3 |
| kGB0 | 2212 |
| kGB1 | 2212 |
| kGradeLevel | 1 |
| kGSR | 1002a |
| kHangul | 동:0E |
| kHanYu | 20867.190 |
| kHanyuPinlu | dōng(272) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 20867.190:dōng |
| kHKGlyph | 0304 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0294.130 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 20867.190 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0131.170 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-362C |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A556 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-455F |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-D6CE |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-544F |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4576 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-4C5D |
| kJapanese | トウ ふゆ |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:295 |
| kJapaneseKun | FUYU |
| kJapaneseOn | TOU |
| kJis0 | 3763 |
| kKangXi | 0131.170 |
| kKorean | TONG |
| kLau | 629 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0392 |
| kMandarin | dōng |
| kMatthews | 6603 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3596 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ007359 MJ007359:E0102 MJ007358:E0103 |
| kMorohashi | 01610:E0103 |
| kNelson | 0633 1161 |
| kPhonetic | 1402 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+3161+15.2.3 C+3161+34.3.2 |
| kRSUnicode | 15.3 |
| kSBGY | 032.30 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "冬" U+51AC CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 52.01 144.10 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | dōng粵dung1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0392 |
| kTang | *dong dong |
| kTGHZ2013 | 078.040,078.050:dōng |
| kTotalStrokes | 5 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "冬" U+51AC CJK Unified Ideograph-# "鼕" U+9F15 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | đông |
| kXerox | 245:337 |
| kXHC1983 | 0258.040:dōng |