U+6BCD "母" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
母
U+6BCD "母" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Han character that primarily means "mother" or "female parent" in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, and it also extends to represent a broader concept of origin or nurturing source, such as in the term "母語" (mother tongue) or "母機" (mother machine). Its structure consists of two horizontal strokes and a component that anciently depicted a woman with breasts, symbolizing fertility and care, and it appears in compound characters like "毎" (every) or "海" (sea) where it contributes phonetic or semantic elements. This character is encoded in the CJK Unified Ideographs block of Unicode, with a stroke count of five, and it is widely used across East Asian languages in both formal and everyday writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+6BCD |
| 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 | 母 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 母 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0xAF 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x6BCD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00006BCD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u6bcd |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A5C0 |
| kCCCII | 214642 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4660 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4660 |
| kCangjie | WYI |
| kCantonese | mou5 |
| kCihaiT | 745.103 |
| kCowles | 2720 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0980.320 |
| kDefinition | mother; female elders; female |
| kEACC | 214642 |
| kFanqie | 古丸 莫厚 |
| kFenn | 571A |
| kFennIndex | 350.06 |
| kFourCornerCode | 7750.0 |
| kGB0 | 3624 |
| kGB1 | 3624 |
| kGradeLevel | 1 |
| kGSR | 0947a |
| kHangul | 모:0E |
| kHanYu | 42380.030 |
| kHanyuPinlu | mǔ(700) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 42380.030:mǔ,mú,wǔ,wú |
| kHKGlyph | 2081 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0980.320 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42380.030 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0588.250 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4438 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A5C0 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4A6C |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-DBAB |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-593D |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4660 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-5B4C |
| kJapanese | ボ ボウ モ ム はは |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:345 |
| kJapaneseKun | HAHA |
| kJapaneseOn | BO BOU MO |
| kJis0 | 4276 |
| kKangXi | 0588.250 |
| kKorean | MO |
| kLau | 2168 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 3018 |
| kMandarin | mǔ |
| kMatthews | 4582 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1849 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ014938 |
| kMorohashi | 16723 |
| kNelson | 2466 |
| kPhonetic | 916 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+3644+80.5.0 |
| kRSUnicode | 80.1 |
| kSBGY | 325.18 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 348.09 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | mǔ粵mou5 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 3018 |
| kTang | *mǒu |
| kTGHZ2013 | 258.050:mǔ |
| kTotalStrokes | 5 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | mẫu |
| kXerox | 242:053 |
| kXHC1983 | 0805.080:mǔ |