U+5C97 "岗" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
岗
U+5C97 "岗" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "hill" or "mound" and is commonly used in modern Mandarin to refer to a small, elevated landform or a ridge, as seen in words like "山岗" (shān gǎng) for hill. It also extends metaphorically to denote a post, position, or sentry in contexts such as "岗位" (gǎng wèi), meaning a job or workstation, reflecting its historical use for a watchtower or guard post. Structurally, the character combines the "mountain" radical (山) on top with the phonetic component "刚" (gāng), illustrating its classification as a phono-semantic compound in the CJK Unified Ideographs block.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5C97 |
| 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 | 岗 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 岗 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xB2 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5C97 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005C97 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5c97 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 393B6E |
| kCangjie | UBK |
| kCantonese | gong1 |
| kDefinition | post; position |
| kEACC | 393B6E |
| kFourCornerCode | 2222 |
| kGB0 | 2458 |
| kHanYu | 10763.090 |
| kHanyuPinlu | gǎng(59) gāng(11) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10763.090 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0308.331 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-385A |
| kIRG_TSource | TF-237C |
| kTGH | 2013:754 |
| kKangXi | 0308.331 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 1511 |
| kMandarin | gǎng |
| kRSUnicode | 46.4 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 182.06 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 107.150:gāng 108.040:gǎng |
| kTotalStrokes | 7 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "崗" U+5D17 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0360.042:gāng 0362.040:gǎng |