U+6559 "教" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

教

U+6559 "教" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a kanji and Chinese character that fundamentally means "to teach," "to instruct," or "education," and it carries a strong cultural weight across East Asia. Composed of the radical for "strike" or "whip" above a component suggesting "child" or "learning," its etymology reflects the ancient concept of guiding or correcting a learner. It is the core element in words like "education" (kyōiku in Japanese, jiàoyù in Chinese) and "religion" (shūkyō, zōngjiào), highlighting its role in both intellectual instruction and spiritual doctrine. Widely used in modern writing, this logograph appears in contexts ranging from classroom materials to philosophical texts, making it an enduring and versatile symbol of knowledge transfer.

General Properties

Code Point	U+6559
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	教
HTML Hex Encoding	教
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE6 0x95 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding	0x6559
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00006559
C/C++/Java Escape	\u6559

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	B1D0
kCCCII	214244
kCNS1986	1-5A74
kCNS1992	1-5A74
kCangjie	JDOK
kCantonese	gaau3
kCowles	1501 1507
kDaeJaweon	0823.010
kDefinition	teach, class
kEACC	334244
kFanqie	古肴古孝
kFourCornerCode	4844.0
kGB0	2944
kGB1	2944
kGradeLevel	1
kGSR	1167i
kHangul	교:N
kHanYu	21459.090
kHanyuPinlu	jiào(1326) jiāo(155)
kHanyuPinyin	21459.090:jiào,jiāo
kHKGlyph	1711
kIICore	AGTJHM
kIRGDaeJaweon	0823.010
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	21459.090
kIRGKangXi	0472.051
kIRG_GSource	G0-3D4C
kIRG_HSource	HB1-B1D0
kIRG_JSource	J0-3635
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-480F
kIRG_KSource	K2-3770
kIRG_TSource	T1-5A74
kIRG_VSource	V1-5826
kJapanese	キョウコウおしえるおそわるおしえしむ
kJoyoKanji	2010
kKoreanName	2015
kTGH	2013:2179
kJapaneseKun	OSHIERU OSHIE
kJapaneseOn	KYOU KOU
kJis0	2221
kKangXi	0472.051
kKarlgren	143
kKorean	KYO
kLau	824
kMainlandTelegraph	2403
kMandarin	jiào
kMatthews	719
kMeyerWempe	997
kMojiJoho	MJ012987
kMorohashi	13213
kNelson	2052
kPhonetic	426 554
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+1709+66.4.7
kRSUnicode	66.7
kSBGY	152.21 415.17
kSemanticVariant	U+654E<kLau,kMatthews
kTaiwanTelegraph	2403
kTang	*gau gàu
kTGHZ2013	168.160:jiāo 171.060:jiào
kTotalStrokes	11
kUnihanCore2020	GHJMT
kVietnamese	giáo
kXerox	241:257
kXHC1983	0566.030:jiāo 0571.070:jiào