U+5E72 "干" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
U+5E72 "干" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a fundamental East Asian character used in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese writing, where it primarily functions as a logograph carrying multiple meanings. In its most basic sense, it visually represents a shield or a spear, linking to ancient pictographs, but over time it has come to denote concepts such as "to do," "to work," "to interfere," or "dry" (as a simplified variant of the character 乾). It also serves as one of the ten Heavenly Stems in the traditional Chinese sexagenary cycle, used for counting time and ordering sequences. This character appears in common vocabulary words like 干部 (gànbù, meaning "cadre" or "official") and is a prolific component in compound characters, often contributing a phonetic or semantic element to derived forms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5E72 |
| 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 | 干 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 干 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xB9 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5E72 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005E72 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5e72 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A47A |
| kCCCII | 213C62 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-445B |
| kCNS1992 | 1-445B |
| kCangjie | MJ |
| kCantonese | gon1 |
| kCihaiT | 479.603 |
| kCowles | 1761 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0645.220 |
| kDefinition | oppose, offend; invade; dried |
| kEACC | 273C67 |
| kFanqie | 古寒 |
| kFenn | 32D |
| kFennIndex | 238.05 |
| kFourCornerCode | 1040.0 |
| kGB0 | 2441 |
| kGB1 | 8821 |
| kGradeLevel | 4 |
| kGSR | 0139a |
| kHangul | 간:0E |
| kHanYu | 10405.050 |
| kHanyuPinlu | gàn(1464) gān(482) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10405.050:gān,gàn,àn |
| kHDZRadBreak | ⼲[U+2F32]:10405.050 |
| kHKGlyph | 1177 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0645.220 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10405.050 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0339.010 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3849 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A47A |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3433 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-CDCE |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-4A4E |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-445B |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-5379 |
| kJapanese | カン ガン ほす ひる おかす たて もとめる |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:23 |
| kJapaneseKun | HOSU HIRU OKASU |
| kJapaneseOn | KAN |
| kJis0 | 2019 |
| kKangXi | 0339.010 |
| kKarlgren | 296 |
| kKorean | KAN |
| kLau | 954 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 1626 |
| kMandarin | gàn |
| kMatthews | 3211 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1230 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ010941 |
| kMorohashi | 09165 |
| kNelson | 1492 |
| kPhonetic | 653 654 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1519+51.3.0 |
| kRSUnicode | 51.0 |
| kSBGY | 122.37 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "干" U+5E72 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 196.15 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | gān粵gon1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 1626 |
| kTang | *gɑn gɑn |
| kTGHZ2013 | 105.130,105.140:gān 107.050:gàn |
| kTotalStrokes | 3 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "乾" U+4E7E CJK Unified Ideograph-# "干" U+5E72 CJK Unified Ideograph-# "幹" U+5E79 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | can |
| kXerox | 247:166 |
| kXHC1983 | 0352.090:gān 0359.030:gàn |