U+6BAE "殮" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
殮
U+6BAE "殮" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that primarily denotes the act of dressing a deceased person for burial, often referred to as "encoffining" or "laying out the body." It combines the radical for death or decay with phonetic and semantic components, and it is used in contexts related to funerary rites and funeral preparations. In modern usage, it appears in classical texts, formal obituaries, and discussions of traditional customs, reflecting cultural practices of honoring the dead with careful ceremonial attentiveness.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+6BAE |
| 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 | 殮 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 殮 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0xAE 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x6BAE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00006BAE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u6bae |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C0D4 |
| kCCCII | 214636 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-737D |
| kCNS1992 | 1-737D |
| kCangjie | MNOMO |
| kCantonese | lim5 |
| kCihaiT | 742.402 |
| kCowles | 2346 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0976.240 |
| kDefinition | dress corpse for burial |
| kEACC | 214636 |
| kFanqie | 力驗 |
| kFenn | 440G |
| kFennIndex | 309.01 |
| kFourCornerCode | 1828.6 |
| kGB1 | 7371 |
| kHangul | 렴:0N 염:0 |
| kHanYu | 21395.110 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 21395.110:liàn |
| kHKGlyph | 2069 |
| kIICore | ATHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0976.240 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21395.110 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0583.380 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-6967 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C0D4 |
| kIRG_JSource | J14-6E22 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-D8B8 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5631 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-737D |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-5B42 |
| kJapanese | レン |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJIS0213 | 2,78,02 |
| kJapaneseKun | OSAMERU |
| kJapaneseOn | REN |
| kJis1 | 3814 |
| kKangXi | 0583.380 |
| kKorean | LYEM |
| kLau | 1884 1885 |
| kMandarin | liàn |
| kMatthews | 4001 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1565 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ014900 |
| kMorohashi | 16590 |
| kPhonetic | 182 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+17896+78.4.13 |
| kRSUnicode | 78.13 |
| kSBGY | 444.02 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "殓" U+6B93 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 346.07 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | liàn粵lim5 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 3003 |
| kTotalStrokes | 17 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HKMPT |
| kVietnamese | liệm |
| kXerox | 260:320 |
| kXHC1983 | 0705.061:liàn |