U+6C24 "氤" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
氤
U+6C24 "氤" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used in classical and modern texts, primarily associated with the concept of an ethereal, dense mist or the vital generative vapors that permeate the cosmos in Chinese philosophy. It is most famously found in the compound "氤氲" (yīn yūn), which describes the mystical haze or primordial energy from which all things emerge, as referenced in texts like the *Book of Changes* (I Ching). This character's semantic component relates to air or vapor, and its radical is 气 (qì, meaning "steam" or "breath"), while its traditional form and usage often carry a poetic or philosophical connotation of indistinctness and potentiality.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+6C24 |
| 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 | 氤 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 氤 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0xB0 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x6C24 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00006C24 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u6c24 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | AEF4 |
| kCCCII | 214657 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5638 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5638 |
| kCangjie | ONWK |
| kCantonese | jan1 |
| kCihaiT | 752.501 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0992.010 |
| kDefinition | hanging fog, misty |
| kEACC | 214657 |
| kFanqie | 於眞 |
| kFourCornerCode | 8061.7 |
| kGB0 | 7519 |
| kGB1 | 7519 |
| kHangul | 인:1N |
| kHanYu | 32011.100 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 32011.100:yīn,yán |
| kHKGlyph | 2103 |
| kIICore | AGTH |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0992.010 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 32011.100 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0599.140 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-6B33 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-AEF4 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-5D65 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-5067 |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-6A61 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5638 |
| kJapanese | イン |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:4549 |
| kJapaneseOn | IN |
| kJis0 | 6169 |
| kKangXi | 0599.140 |
| kKarlgren | 273 |
| kKorean | IN |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 3052 |
| kMandarin | yīn |
| kMatthews | 7409 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3819e |
| kMojiJoho | MJ015021 |
| kMorohashi | 17060 |
| kPhonetic | 1480 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+5380+84.4.6 |
| kRSUnicode | 84.6 |
| kSBGY | 101.42 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+7D6A<kMeyerWempe |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 353.01 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | yīn粵jan1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 3052 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 436.160:yīn |
| kTotalStrokes | 10 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJMT |
| kXerox | 274:353 |
| kXHC1983 | 1375.060:yīn |