U+6C2B "氫" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
氫
U+6C2B "氫" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) ideograph that represents the element hydrogen. In modern Chinese and Japanese, this character is used as the standard logogram for hydrogen, while in Korean Hanja, it carries the same meaning. It is composed of the radical for gas or vapor (气) combined with a phonetic component suggesting lightness or clarity, reflecting the chemical property of hydrogen as a light, gaseous element. Originally derived from classical Chinese, it entered the CJK Unified Ideograph block as part of the Unicode standard to facilitate digital representation across East Asian languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+6C2B |
| 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 | 氫 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 氫 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0xB0 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x6C2B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00006C2B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u6c2b |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B242 |
| kCCCII | 214658 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5B47 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5B47 |
| kCangjie | ONMVM |
| kCantonese | hing1 |
| kCihaiT | 753.402 |
| kDefinition | hydrogen (element 1, H) |
| kEACC | 214658 |
| kFourCornerCode | 8011.7 |
| kGB1 | 3966 |
| kHanYu | 32013.010 |
| kHanyuPinlu | qīng(13) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 32013.010:qīng |
| kHKGlyph | 2104 |
| kIICore | ATHM |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 32013.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0600.011 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-4762 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B242 |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-015027 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5B47 |
| kJapanese | ケイ |
| kKangXi | 0600.011 |
| kMandarin | qīng |
| kMojiJoho | MJ015027 |
| kMorohashi | 17068 |
| kPhonetic | 623 |
| kRSUnicode | 84.7 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "氢" U+6C22 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 353.08 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | qīng粵hing1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 8637 |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |
| kXerox | 257:125 |
| kXHC1983 | 0934.011:qīng |