U+58F6 "壶" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+58F6 "壶" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents a container, typically a pot, kettle, or jug, often used for holding liquids such as tea, wine, or water. Its composition in the Kangxi radical system falls under radical 33 "士" (scholar), though its more direct semantic component relates to the idea of a vessel with a lid and a body, as seen in its structure of a top cover and a bottom enclosure. This character is widely employed in East Asian languages, including Chinese and Japanese, where it appears in common words like 茶壶 (teapot) and 水壶 (water kettle), reflecting its functional role in daily life and culture. The character's history traces back to ancient bronze script, where it depicted a rounded, handled container, and its modern form has been standardized for use in digital text encoding under the CJK Unified Ideographs block.

General Properties

Code Point U+58F6
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 壶
HTML Hex Encoding 壶
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0xA3 0xB6
UTF-16 Encoding 0x58F6
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000058F6
C/C++/Java Escape \u58f6

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

kCCCII 273876
kCangjie GBTC
kCantonese wu4
kDefinition jar, pot, jug, vase; surname
kEACC 273876
kFourCornerCode 4010
kGB0 2688
kHanYu 10447.060
kHanyuPinlu hú(47)
kIICore AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10447.060
kIRGKangXi 0243.071
kIRG_GSource G0-3A78
kTGH 2013:1812
kKangXi 0243.071
kMainlandTelegraph 1106
kMandarin
kPhonetic 2*
kRSUnicode 33.7
kSMSZD2003Index 143.09
kTGHZ2013 140.150:hú
kTotalStrokes 10
kTraditionalVariant "壺" U+58FA CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 0472.060:hú