U+5DDD "川" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
川
U+5DDD "川" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a logogram representing a river or stream, and its pictographic origins can be traced back to ancient Chinese oracle bone script, where it was drawn as three wavy lines flowing together to evoke the shape of a watercourse. In modern usage across East Asian languages including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, this character retains its core meaning of a river, often appearing in place names and compound words such as "四川" (Sichuan, meaning "four rivers") or "川崎" (Kawasaki, a Japanese city name). Its compact three-stroke structure makes it a common element in calligraphy and typography, symbolizing the natural flow and division of water landscapes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5DDD |
| 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 | 川 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 川 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xB7 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5DDD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005DDD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5ddd |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A474 |
| kCCCII | 213C34 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4455 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4455 |
| kCangjie | LLL |
| kCantonese | cyun1 |
| kCihaiT | 462.202 |
| kCowles | 604 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0624.070 |
| kDefinition | stream, river; flow; boil |
| kEACC | 213C34 |
| kFanqie | 昌緣 |
| kFenn | 425E |
| kFennIndex | 102.02 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2200.0 |
| kGB0 | 2008 |
| kGB1 | 2008 |
| kGSR | 0462a |
| kHangul | 천:0E |
| kHanYu | 10032.020 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10032.020:chuān |
| kHKGlyph | 1131 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0624.070 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10032.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0323.230 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3428 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A474 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-406E |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-EDAB |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-7439 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4455 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-5357 |
| kJapanese | セン かわ |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:43 |
| kJapaneseKun | KAWA |
| kJapaneseOn | SEN |
| kJis0 | 3278 |
| kKangXi | 0323.230 |
| kKorean | CHEN |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 1557 |
| kMandarin | chuān |
| kMatthews | 1439 |
| kMeyerWempe | 376 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ010763 |
| kMorohashi | 08673 |
| kNelson | 1447 |
| kPhonetic | 273 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2706+47.3.0 |
| kRSUnicode | 47.0 |
| kSBGY | 140.48 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+5DDB<kMatthews |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 189.05 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | chuān粵cyun1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 1557 |
| kTang | *chiuɛn |
| kTGHZ2013 | 051.180:chuān |
| kTotalStrokes | 3 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | xuyên |
| kXerox | 246:334 |
| kXHC1983 | 0163.010:chuān |