U+68CB "棋" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
棋
U+68CB "棋" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents the concept of board games, most commonly referring to chess or the abstract strategy game Go (known as weiqi in Chinese). It is composed of the wood radical on the left, indicating the traditional material of game pieces or boards, and the phonetic component on the right. This character is widely used in East Asian languages including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, appearing in words such as "象棋" (xiangqi, Chinese chess) and "囲碁" (igo, Japanese for Go). Its inclusion in Unicode ensures global digital representation and readability across modern text systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+68CB |
| 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 | 棋 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 棋 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0xA3 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x68CB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000068CB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u68cb |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B4D1 |
| kCCCII | 214472 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5F76 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5F76 |
| kCangjie | DTMC |
| kCantonese | kei4 |
| kCihaiT | 702.503 |
| kCowles | 1957 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0920.110 |
| kDefinition | chess; any game similar to chess |
| kEACC | 214472 |
| kFanqie | 渠之 |
| kFenn | 102G |
| kFennIndex | 39.05 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4498.1 |
| kGB0 | 3869 |
| kGB1 | 3869 |
| kGradeLevel | 3 |
| kGSR | 0952u |
| kHangul | 기:0N |
| kHanYu | 21224.040 |
| kHanyuPinlu | qí(21) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 21224.040:qí,jī |
| kHKGlyph | 1944 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0920.110 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21224.040 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0532.030 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4665 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B4D1 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-347D |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-D2CE |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5124 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5F76 |
| kIRG_VSource | V0-3A2F |
| kJapanese | キ ギ ゴ |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:2564 |
| kJapaneseKun | GO |
| kJapaneseOn | KI GI |
| kJis0 | 2093 |
| kKangXi | 0532.030 |
| kKarlgren | 338 |
| kKorean | KI |
| kLau | 1683 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 2759 |
| kMandarin | qí |
| kMatthews | 527 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1122 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ014041 |
| kMorohashi | 14922 |
| kNelson | 2294 |
| kPhonetic | 604 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1593+75.4.8 |
| kRSUnicode | 75.8 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+68CA<kLau,kMatthews,kMeyerWempe U+7881<kLau,kMatthews |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 320.13 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | qí粵kei4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 2759 |
| kTang | ghiə |
| kTGHZ2013 | 292.060:qí |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | cời |
| kXerox | 253:371 |
| kXHC1983 | 0896.040:qí |