U+687F "桿" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
桿
U+687F "桿" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means a rod, pole, or shaft, often used in the context of long, slender objects like a flagpole or lever, and it is also a common component in words related to rods or bars in various technical and everyday settings. In traditional Chinese and Japanese usage, it can refer to a club or a stick, and it appears in compounds such as "桿菌" meaning bacillus (rod-shaped bacteria) or in the word for a pool cue in billiards. This character is classified under the radical 木 (wood) and has 11 strokes, reflecting its physical and metaphorical associations with linear, supportive structures in East Asian languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+687F |
| 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 | 桿 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 桿 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0xA1 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x687F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000687F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u687f |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B1EC |
| kCCCII | 214461 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5B32 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5B32 |
| kCangjie | DAMJ |
| kCantonese | gon2 |
| kCihaiT | 697.404 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0916.160 |
| kDefinition | pole; stick; club; pole as unit |
| kEACC | 214461 |
| kFenn | 33E |
| kFennIndex | 238.09 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4694.1 |
| kHangul | 간:0N |
| kHanYu | 21213.020 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 21213.020:hàn,gǎn |
| kHKGlyph | 1926 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0916.160 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21213.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0527.230 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-3D22 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B1EC |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-5B65 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-CDD4 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-4A54 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5B32 |
| kJapanese | カン ガン |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | TEKO POURU |
| kJapaneseOn | KAN GAN |
| kJis0 | 5969 |
| kKangXi | 0527.230 |
| kKarlgren | 61 |
| kKorean | HAN |
| kMandarin | gǎn |
| kMatthews | 3219 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ013952 |
| kMorohashi | 14823 |
| kNelson | 2280 |
| kPhonetic | 502 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+5192+75.4.7 |
| kRSUnicode | 75.7 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "杆" U+6746 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 319.08 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | gǎn粵gon2,gon1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 2731 |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kXerox | 250:246 |
| kXHC1983 | 0357.011:gǎn |