U+58BE "墾" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
墾
U+58BE "墾" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character meaning "to cultivate land" or "to reclaim soil," often associated with the idea of bringing barren or wild land into productive agricultural use by plowing and planting. It is composed of the radical for "earth" or "ground" (土) and a phonetic component that reflects its pronunciation as "kěn" in Mandarin, and it appears in classical texts and modern Chinese, Japanese, and Korean contexts, where it conveys the concept of diligent farming or pioneering development. This character also implies a broader sense of opening up new territory or possibilities through effort and perseverance.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+58BE |
| 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 | 墾 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 墾 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xA2 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x58BE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000058BE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u58be |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | BEC1 |
| kCCCII | 213867 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-704A |
| kCNS1992 | 1-704A |
| kCangjie | BVG |
| kCantonese | han2 |
| kCihaiT | 331.104 |
| kCowles | 979 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0479.230 |
| kDefinition | cultivate, reclaim, to farm land |
| kEACC | 213867 |
| kFanqie | 康很 |
| kFenn | 360F |
| kFennIndex | 247.06 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2710.4 |
| kGB1 | 3149 |
| kGradeLevel | 5 |
| kGSR | 0416m |
| kHangul | 간:0N |
| kHanYu | 10492.040 |
| kHanyuPinlu | kěn(10) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10492.040:kěn |
| kHKGlyph | 0810 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0479.230 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10492.040 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0240.030 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-3F51 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-BEC1 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3A26 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-CDCB |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-4A4B |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-704A |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-512D |
| kJapanese | コン ゴン ひらく |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | HIRAKU |
| kJapaneseOn | KON |
| kJis0 | 2606 |
| kKangXi | 0240.030 |
| kKarlgren | 313 |
| kKorean | KAN |
| kMandarin | kěn |
| kMatthews | 3337 |
| kMeyerWempe | 666 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ009327 |
| kMorohashi | 05509 |
| kNelson | 1142 |
| kPhonetic | 432 575 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2070+32.3.13 |
| kRSUnicode | 32.13 |
| kSBGY | 283.32 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "垦" U+57A6 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 140.17 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | kěn粵han2 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 1083 |
| kTotalStrokes | 16 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | khẩn |
| kXerox | 252:254 |
| kXHC1983 | 0645.031:kěn |