U+593C "夼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
夼
U+593C "夼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare Chinese character composed of the radical for "big" or "large" (大) above the radical for "river" or "stream" (川), visually suggesting a wide or open expanse of water. In modern and historical Chinese usage, it primarily refers to a flat, open field or a low-lying area where water collects, often used in place names in northern China, such as in Shandong Province. Because it is not a common character in everyday writing, but retains geographic and descriptive significance in certain regional contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+593C |
| 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 | 夼 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 夼 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xA4 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x593C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000593C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u593c |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C9CB |
| kCCCII | 217930 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-222B |
| kCNS1992 | 2-222B |
| kCangjie | KLLL |
| kCantonese | kwong3 |
| kDefinition | low or swampy land, most often used in place names |
| kEACC | 217930 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4022.2 |
| kGB0 | 6237 |
| kGB1 | 6237 |
| kHanYu | 10528.030 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10528.030:kuǎng |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10528.030 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0250.071 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5E45 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-C9CB |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-2B53 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-222B |
| kTGH | 2013:3587 |
| kKangXi | 0250.071 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 8268 |
| kMandarin | kuǎng |
| kRSUnicode | 37.3 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 148.02 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | kuǎng粵kwong3 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 8254 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 202.030:kuǎng |
| kTotalStrokes | 6 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHMT |
| kXerox | 310:365 |
| kXHC1983 | 0660.030:kuǎng |