U+68F1 "棱" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
棱
U+68F1 "棱" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character meaning "corner," "edge," "ridge," or "square beam," and it is commonly used in both modern and classical Chinese texts. Pronounced as "léng" in Mandarin and "ling4" in Cantonese, it often appears in compound words like "棱角" (edges and corners) or "棱镜" (prism), and it is also a component in Japanese kanji, where it carries similar meanings of angularity or protrusion. This character is encoded in the CJK Unified Ideographs block, reflecting its historical and continued usage across East Asian writing systems for describing geometric shapes, structural features, and metaphorical sharpness.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+68F1 |
| 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 | 棱 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 棱 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0xA3 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x68F1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000068F1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u68f1 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | D9B1 |
| kCCCII | 223D73 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-3C54 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-3C54 |
| kCangjie | DGCE |
| kCantonese | ling4 |
| kCihaiT | 704.401 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0922.120 |
| kDefinition | squared timber; angle, edge |
| kEACC | 223D73 |
| kFanqie | 魯登 |
| kFennIndex | 293.04 |
| kFourCornerCode | 5404.7 |
| kGB0 | 3266 |
| kGB1 | 3266 |
| kHanYu | 21224.010 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 21224.010:léng,lèng,lēng,líng,chēng |
| kIICore | AGTM |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0922.120 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21224.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0534.160 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4062 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-D9B1 |
| kIRG_JSource | J13-756E |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-4BEE |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-3B44 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-3C54 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-5A32 |
| kJapanese | チョウ リョウ ロウ かど |
| kTGH | 2013:2563 |
| kJIS0213 | 1,85,78 |
| kJapaneseOn | ROU RYOU CHOU |
| kJis1 | 3615 |
| kKangXi | 0534.160 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 2789 |
| kMandarin | léng |
| kMatthews | 3847 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1588a |
| kMojiJoho | MJ014084 |
| kMorohashi | 14979 |
| kNelson | 2285 |
| kPhonetic | 810 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+14641+75.4.8 |
| kRSUnicode | 75.8 |
| kSBGY | 201.09 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+7A1C<kMeyerWempe U+695E<kFenn |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 322.01 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | léng粵ling4 líng粵ling4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 2789 |
| kTang | ləng lə̀ng |
| kTGHZ2013 | 213.200:lēng 214.020:léng 226.250:líng |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHMT |
| kVietnamese | săng |
| kXerox | 322:113 |
| kXHC1983 | 0687.070:lēng 0687.100:léng 0719.030:líng |