U+5769 "坩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
坩
U+5769 "坩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily denotes an earthenware pot or crucible, often used in ancient contexts for melting metals, such as in alchemy or early metallurgy. It can also refer to a "crucible" more broadly, and in modern usage, it appears in chemical terms like "坩堝" (gānguō), meaning a crucible or melting pot. The character is composed of the radical for "earth" or "clay" (土) on the left, indicating its material association, and the phonetic component "甘" on the right.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5769 |
| 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 | 坩 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 坩 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x9D 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5769 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005769 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5769 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A958 |
| kCCCII | 213829 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4C5A |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4C5A |
| kCangjie | GTM |
| kCantonese | ham1 |
| kCihaiT | 319.204 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0461.330 |
| kDefinition | earthenware, earthenware vessel |
| kEACC | 213829 |
| kFanqie | 苦甘 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4417.0 |
| kGB0 | 5965 |
| kGB1 | 5965 |
| kHangul | 감:1N |
| kHanYu | 10429.120 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10429.120:gān |
| kHKGlyph | 0753 |
| kIICore | AGTJH |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0461.330 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10429.120 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0226.210 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5B61 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A958 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-5430 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-3B78 |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-5747 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4C5A |
| kJapanese | カン つぼ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:3836 |
| kJapaneseKun | TSUBO |
| kJapaneseOn | KAN |
| kJis0 | 5216 |
| kKangXi | 0226.210 |
| kKorean | KAM |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0984 |
| kMandarin | gān |
| kMatthews | 3243 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008965 |
| kMorohashi | 04975 |
| kNelson | 1069 |
| kPhonetic | 650 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+4481+32.3.5 C+4481+99.5.3 |
| kRSUnicode | 32.5 |
| kSBGY | 224.28 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 130.02 435.16 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | gān粵ham1 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 106.040:gān |
| kTotalStrokes | 8 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJMT |
| kXerox | 267:375 |
| kXHC1983 | 0356.030:gān |