U+6B9A "殚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+6B9A "殚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to exhaust" or "to use up" and is often used in classical or formal contexts to convey the idea of expending all resources or energy. Specifically, it carries the nuance of complete depletion, frequently appearing in phrases like "殚精竭虑" which means to rack one's brains or to think through thoroughly. The character belongs to the radical "歹" which relates to death or decay, and its phonetic component is "单" suggesting its pronunciation as "dān" in Mandarin.

General Properties

Code Point	U+6B9A
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	殚
HTML Hex Encoding	殚
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE6 0xAE 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding	0x6B9A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00006B9A
C/C++/Java Escape	\u6b9a

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	284539
kCangjie	MNCWJ
kCantonese	daan1
kDefinition	utmost, entirely, quite; use up
kEACC	284539
kFourCornerCode	1825
kGB0	7373
kHanYu	21390.120
kIICore	CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	21390.120
kIRGKangXi	0582.041
kIRG_GSource	G0-6969
kTGH	2013:5113
kKangXi	0582.041
kMainlandTelegraph	3000
kMandarin	dān
kPhonetic	1294*
kRSUnicode	78.8
kSMSZD2003Index	345.13
kTGHZ2013	064.140:dān
kTotalStrokes	12
kTraditionalVariant	"殫" U+6BAB CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0209.030:dān