U+69DB "槛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+69DB "槛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily functions as a noun meaning "threshold" or "doorsill," and by extension can refer to a "railing" or "enclosure," such as the balustrade around a balcony or the bars of a cage. In classical and modern Chinese usage, it often appears in metaphorical contexts, such as in the term "门槛" (ménkǎn) for the literal or figurative threshold of a doorway, or in expressions like "槛车" (jiànchē), which denotes a prison cart or cage used in ancient times to transport criminals. The character combines the radical "木" (wood), indicating its material association, with the phonetic component "监" (jiān), which contributes to its pronunciation and can also carry overtones of supervision or enclosure.

General Properties

Code Point U+69DB
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 槛
HTML Hex Encoding 槛
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE6 0xA7 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding 0x69DB
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000069DB
C/C++/Java Escape \u69db

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 274566
kCangjie DLIT
kCantonese laam6
kDefinition threshold, door-sill
kEACC 274566
kFourCornerCode 4891
kGB0 2887
kHanYu 21263.150
kHanyuPinlu kǎn(15)
kIICore AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 21263.150
kIRGKangXi 0546.251
kIRG_GSource G0-3C77
kTGH 2013:3079
kKangXi 0546.251
kMainlandTelegraph 2920
kMandarin kǎn
kPhonetic 544*
kRSUnicode 75.10
kSMSZD2003Index 329.18
kTGHZ2013 166.090:jiàn 193.040:kǎn
kTotalStrokes 14
kTraditionalVariant "檻" U+6ABB CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 0555.090:jiàn 0632.030:kǎn