U+5668 "器" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

器

U+5668 "器" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "vessel," "device," "instrument," or "tool," and it is composed of four distinct components representing mouths or openings arranged around a central element of a dog, which together symbolize a container or implement made of many parts. This character is widely used in the Chinese and Japanese writing systems, appearing in common words such as "機器" (jīqì, meaning machine) and "器用" (kiyō, meaning utensil or dexterity), and it carries a core semantic concept of an object that serves a practical function or holds something. Its structure reflects ancient pictographic origins, where the four mouths denote multiple openings or parts, and the dog (犬) in the middle may have originally represented a guard or a handle, emphasizing the idea of a composite tool or receptacle.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5668
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	器
HTML Hex Encoding	器
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x99 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5668
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005668
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5668

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

kBigFive	BEB9
kCCCII	213749
kCNS1986	1-7042
kCNS1992	1-7042
kCangjie	RRIKR
kCantonese	hei3
kCihaiT	291.303
kCowles	1035
kDaeJaweon	0432.260
kDefinition	receptacle, vessel; instrument
kEACC	4B3749
kFanqie	去冀
kFenn	457B
kFennIndex	40.11
kFourCornerCode	6666.3
kGB0	3887
kGB1	3887
kGradeLevel	4
kGSR	0536a
kHangul	기:0E
kHanYu	10690.070
kHanyuPinlu	qì(771)
kHanyuPinyin	10690.070:qì
kHKGlyph	0690
kIICore	AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	0432.260
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10690.070
kIRGKangXi	0210.020
kIRG_GSource	G0-4677
kIRG_HSource	HB1-BEB9
kIRG_JSource	J0-346F
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-D2BB
kIRG_KSource	K0-506F
kIRG_TSource	T1-7042
kIRG_VSource	V1-5021
kJapanese	キうつわ
kJoyoKanji	2010
kKoreanEducationHanja	2007
kTGH	2013:3348
kJapaneseKun	UTSUWA
kJapaneseOn	KI
kJis0	2079
kKangXi	0210.020
kKorean	KI
kLau	1159
kMainlandTelegraph	0892
kMandarin	qì
kMatthews	549
kMeyerWempe	700
kMojiJoho	MJ008683 MJ030252:FE00 MJ008683:E0102 MJ030252:E0103 MJ057164:E0104 MJ058033:E0105
kMorohashi	04349' 04376:FE00 04349':E0102 04376:E0103
kNelson	0994 0996
kPhonetic	459
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+1579+30.3.12 C+1579+37.3.12
kRSUnicode	30.13
kSBGY	354.40
kSemanticVariant	U+5650<kMatthews
kSMSZD2003Index	119.13
kSMSZD2003Readings	qì粵hei3
kSpoofingVariant	U+20F96
kTaiwanTelegraph	0892
kTang	kyì
kTGHZ2013	294.100:qì
kTotalStrokes	16
kUnihanCore2020	GHJKMPT
kVietnamese	khí
kXerox	243:253
kXHC1983	0902.130:qì