U+6AB8 "檸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
檸
U+6AB8 "檸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used in both Traditional Chinese and Japanese (where it is known as a Kanji) that primarily refers to the lemon fruit. This logogram combines the wood radical (木) on the left side, indicating its association with a tree or plant, with a phonetic component on the right that contributes to its pronunciation, which is "níng" in Mandarin and "nei" or "nêng" in Japanese. In traditional Chinese, it is most commonly seen in the word "檸檬" meaning lemon, and it functions as a specific, relatively modern character that was created to represent a non-native fruit, illustrating how the CJK script adapts to represent new concepts through systematic compound formation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+6AB8 |
| 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 | 檸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 檸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0xAA 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x6AB8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00006AB8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u6ab8 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C266 |
| kCCCII | 214563 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7652 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7652 |
| kCangjie | DJPN |
| kCantonese | ning4 |
| kCihaiT | 725.501 |
| kCowles | 2900 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0948.140 |
| kDefinition | lemon |
| kEACC | 214563 |
| kFanqie | 拏梗 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4392.1 |
| kGB1 | 3691 |
| kHanYu | 21311.020 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 21311.020:níng |
| kHKGlyph | 2022 |
| kIICore | ATJHM |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0948.140 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21311.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0558.440 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-447B |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C266 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-5D26 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-4DD8 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-3D59 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7652 |
| kJapanese | ドウ ネイ ニョウ |
| kJapaneseOn | NEI DOU |
| kJis0 | 6106 |
| kKangXi | 0558.440 |
| kLau | 2386 |
| kMandarin | níng |
| kMatthews | 4729 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2089 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ014626 MJ014626:E0101 MJ014627:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 15742 15742:E0101 |
| kPhonetic | 978 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+5317+75.4.14 |
| kRSUnicode | 75.14 |
| kSBGY | 317.24 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "柠" U+67E0 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 337.01 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | níng粵ning4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 2899 |
| kTotalStrokes | 18 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJMT |
| kXerox | 266:160 |
| kXHC1983 | 0835.151:níng |