U+596B "奫" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+596B "奫" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and ancient Chinese character that primarily signifies the vast, deep, and expansive appearance of water, often used to describe a large body of water like an immense ocean or abyss. It is composed of the radical for "big" or "large" (大) combined with elements suggesting depth or flow, and it appears in classical texts, including the Zhuangzi, where it conveys a sense of boundless magnitude. In modern usage, this character is extremely uncommon and is primarily of interest to scholars of historical Chinese literature, calligraphy, and etymology, lacking a standardized pronunciation in contemporary Mandarin. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures its preservation for digital representation and academic study across global computing systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+596B
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	奫
HTML Hex Encoding	奫
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0xA5 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding	0x596B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000596B
C/C++/Java Escape	\u596b

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

kBigFive	E16A
kCCCII	217953
kCNS1986	2-4951
kCNS1992	2-4951
kCangjie	KELL
kCantonese	wan1
kCihaiT	375.502
kDaeJaweon	0515.220
kDefinition	deep and broad (expanse of water); abyss
kFanqie	於倫
kFourCornerCode	4012.3
kGB3	2129
kHangul	윤:0N
kHanYu	10549.080
kHanyuPinyin	10549.080:yūn
kIICore	AKP
kIRGDaeJaweon	0515.220
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10549.080
kIRGKangXi	0253.280
kIRG_GSource	G3-353D
kIRG_HSource	HB2-E16A
kIRG_JSource	J1-387D
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-FBE4
kIRG_KSource	K0-6B44
kIRG_TSource	T2-4951
kJapanese	イン
kKoreanName	2015
kJapaneseKun	IZUMI
kJapaneseOn	IN
kJis1	2493
kKangXi	0253.280
kKorean	YUN
kMandarin	yūn
kMojiJoho	MJ009533
kMorohashi	05995
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+21385+37.3.12
kRSUnicode	37.11
kSBGY	106.14
kSimplifiedVariant	"𫯶" U+2BBF6 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kTotalStrokes	15
kUnihanCore2020	HKMPT