U+5869 "塩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
塩
U+5869 "塩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is the Chinese character for "salt," commonly used in both traditional and simplified Chinese writing as well as in Japanese kanji. This ideograph combines the radical for "earth" or "soil" on the left with a phonetic component on the right, reflecting its historical connection to salt production from the earth or sea. In Japanese, it is a regular-use character with the on'yomi reading "en" and kun'yomi "shio," and it appears in words such as "shio" for salt itself or "shiozuke" for salt pickling. Its semantic core represents a fundamental seasoning and preservative, making it a significant character in culinary and cultural contexts across East Asia.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5869 |
| 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 | 塩 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 塩 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xA1 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5869 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005869 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5869 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 2D6251 |
| kCNS1986 | E-405A |
| kCNS1992 | 3-405A |
| kCangjie | GORT |
| kCantonese | jim4 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0474.270 |
| kDefinition | salt |
| kEACC | 2D6251 |
| kFanqie | 余廉 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4811.7 |
| kHangul | 염:1 |
| kHanYu | 10472.111 |
| kIICore | AJ |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0474.270 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10472.111 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0236.341 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-3479 |
| kIRG_HSource | H-98E3 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3176 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-3C10 |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-6753 |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-405A |
| kJapanese | エン しお |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kJapaneseKun | SHIO |
| kJapaneseOn | EN |
| kJis0 | 1786 |
| kKangXi | 0236.341 |
| kKorean | YEM |
| kMandarin | yán |
| kMatthews | 7352 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ009234 |
| kMorohashi | 05382 |
| kNelson | 1125 |
| kPhonetic | 544 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1304+32.3.10 |
| kRSUnicode | 32.10 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+9E7D<kMatthews |
| kTotalStrokes | 13 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJ |