U+6909 "椉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+6909 "椉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare or obsolete Chinese character primarily used in classical texts, where its historical meaning conveyed concepts related to ascending, mounting, or riding, often serving as an ancient variant or predecessor of the more common modern character 乘 (chéng). Its structure consists of the "wood" radical (木) on the left, suggesting a connection to wooden objects or vehicles, combined with a phonetic or semantic component on the right. In modern East Asian languages, this character is no longer in standard use, having been largely replaced by its more simplified counterpart, but it appears in historical and philological contexts, such as in editions of ancient Chinese literature or dictionaries documenting archaic scripts.

General Properties

Code Point U+6909
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 椉
HTML Hex Encoding 椉
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE6 0xA4 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding 0x6909
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00006909
C/C++/Java Escape \u6909

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

kCCCII 223D5C
kCNS1986 E-3C37
kCNS1992 3-3C37
kCangjie YNQD
kCantonese sing4
kCihaiT 706.102
kDaeJaweon 0923.180
kEACC 223D5C
kFanqie 食陵
kHanYu 21237.020
kIRGDaeJaweon 0923.180
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 21237.020
kIRGKangXi 0536.030
kIRG_GSource GE-3D35
kIRG_HSource H-8DBD
kIRG_JSource J1-4436
kIRG_KPSource KP1-4C05
kIRG_KSource K2-3B50
kIRG_TSource T3-3C37
kJapanese ジョウ
kJapaneseKun NOORU NOOSERU
kJapaneseOn JOU
kJis1 3622
kKangXi 0536.030
kMandarin chéng
kMojiJoho MJ014113
kMorohashi 15016
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+21776+8.2.10 C+21776+75.4.8
kRSUnicode 75.8
kSBGY 199.32
kTotalStrokes 12
kUnihanCore2020 H
kXHC1983 0139.020:chéng 1030.010:shèng