U+5E9A "庚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
庚
U+5E9A "庚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents the seventh Heavenly Stem in the traditional Chinese sexagenary cycle, often associated with the element Metal and the direction West. In classical Chinese cosmology, it is linked to concepts of age, change, and the autumn season, and it appears in words related to "age" or "period," such as "年庚" (nian geng) meaning one's age or birth year. The character is also used in modern contexts to denote "path" or "way" in certain compound terms, and it frequently occurs in historical and literary texts, including the names of eras or titles in East Asian cultures.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5E9A |
| 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 | 庚 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 庚 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xBA 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5E9A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005E9A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5e9a |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A9B0 |
| kCCCII | 213C6F |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4D32 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4D32 |
| kCangjie | ILO |
| kCantonese | gang1 |
| kCihaiT | 487.303 |
| kCowles | 1554 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0654.100 |
| kDefinition | 7th heavenly stem |
| kEACC | 213C6F |
| kFanqie | 古行 |
| kFenn | 834F |
| kFennIndex | 248.01 |
| kFourCornerCode | 0023.7 |
| kGB0 | 2493 |
| kGB1 | 2493 |
| kGSR | 0746a |
| kHangul | 경:0E |
| kHanYu | 20879.060 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 20879.060:gēng |
| kHKGlyph | 1190 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0654.100 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 20879.060 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0344.220 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-387D |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A9B0 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-392E |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-CFB6 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-4C52 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4D32 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-5426 |
| kJapanese | コウ キョウ かのえ |
| kJinmeiyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:1219 |
| kJapaneseKun | KANOE |
| kJapaneseOn | KOU |
| kJis0 | 2514 |
| kKangXi | 0344.220 |
| kKarlgren | 317 |
| kKorean | KYENG |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 1649 |
| kMandarin | gēng |
| kMatthews | 3339 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1045a |
| kMojiJoho | MJ010985 |
| kMorohashi | 09278 |
| kNelson | 1505 |
| kPhonetic | 577 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1984+53.3.5 |
| kRSUnicode | 53.5 |
| kSBGY | 183.43 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 200.03 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | gēng粵gang1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 1649 |
| kTang | gæng |
| kTGHZ2013 | 112.100:gēng |
| kTotalStrokes | 8 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | canh |
| kXerox | 261:144 |
| kXHC1983 | 0377.060:gēng |