U+6A90 "檐" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
檐
U+6A90 "檐" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily refers to the eaves of a house or the projecting edge of a roof. It is composed of the radical for "wood" (木) on the left, indicating a connection to wooden structures, and a phonetic component on the right that suggests its pronunciation, which is similar to "yan" in Mandarin. This character appears in classical and modern Chinese texts to describe architectural features, and it also carries extended meanings in poetic contexts, such as shelter or the overhanging part of a cliff.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+6A90 |
| 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 | 檐 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 檐 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0xAA 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x6A90 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00006A90 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u6a90 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C0D1 |
| kCCCII | 224247 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-737A |
| kCNS1992 | 1-737A |
| kCangjie | DNCR |
| kCantonese | jim4 |
| kCihaiT | 724.403 |
| kCowles | 1318 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0946.030 |
| kDefinition | eaves of house; brim, rim |
| kEACC | 224247 |
| kFanqie | 余廉 |
| kFenn | 741E |
| kFennIndex | 624.08 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4796.1 |
| kGB0 | 7360 |
| kGB1 | 7360 |
| kGSR | 0619g |
| kHangul | 첨:1N |
| kHanYu | 21304.040 |
| kHanyuPinlu | yán(13) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 21304.040:yán,dān |
| kIICore | AGTM |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0946.030 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21304.040 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0556.270 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-695C |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C0D1 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-5C79 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-4DC4 |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-6F4F |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-737A |
| kJapanese | エン タン ひさし のき |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:3395 |
| kJapaneseKun | HISASHI |
| kJapaneseOn | EN TAN |
| kJis0 | 6089 |
| kKangXi | 0556.270 |
| kKorean | CHEM |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 2908 |
| kMandarin | yán |
| kMatthews | 7351 |
| kMeyerWempe | 877 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ014573 MJ014573:E0102 MJ014574:E0103 |
| kMorohashi | 15659 15659:E0102 |
| kPhonetic | 179 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+5306+75.4.13 V+13555+75.4.13 |
| kRSUnicode | 75.13 |
| kSBGY | 225.14 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+7C37<kMatthews,kMeyerWempe |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 335.05 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | yán粵jim4,sim4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 2908 |
| kTang | *iɛm |
| kTGHZ2013 | 422.180:yán |
| kTotalStrokes | 17 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJMT |
| kXerox | 271:276 |
| kXHC1983 | 1326.030:yán |