U+6C34 "水" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
水
U+6C34 "水" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is the East Asian logogram for "water," representing one of the fundamental elements in Chinese philosophy and a core radical used in thousands of compound characters across Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems. This character originated from an ancient pictograph depicting flowing water or ripples, and its modern form retains a flowing, aqueous essence through its strokes. In common usage, it appears in words for liquids, fluids, and concepts related to water, such as rivers, drinks, and even metaphorical ideas like fluidity or abundance.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+6C34 |
| 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 | 水 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 水 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0xB0 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x6C34 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00006C34 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u6c34 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A4F4 |
| kCCCII | 21465C |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4555 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4555 |
| kCangjie | E |
| kCantonese | seoi2 |
| kCihaiT | 757.101 |
| kCowles | 4004 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0992.090 |
| kDefinition | water, liquid, lotion, juice |
| kEACC | 21465C |
| kFanqie | 式軌 |
| kFenn | 520A |
| kFennIndex | 467.07 468.01 |
| kFourCornerCode | 1223.0 |
| kGB0 | 4314 |
| kGB1 | 4314 |
| kGradeLevel | 1 |
| kGSR | 0576a |
| kHangul | 수:0E |
| kHanYu | 31545.010 |
| kHanyuPinlu | shuǐ(2819) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 31545.010:shuǐ |
| kHDZRadBreak | ⽔[U+2F54]:31545.010 |
| kHKGlyph | 2108 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0992.090 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 31545.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0603.010 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4B2E |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A4F4 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3F65 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E3EE |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6229 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4555 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-5B5A |
| kJapanese | スイ みず かわ |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:117 |
| kJapaneseKun | MIZU |
| kJapaneseOn | SUI |
| kJis0 | 3169 |
| kKangXi | 0603.010 |
| kKorean | SWU |
| kLau | 2937 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 3055 |
| kMandarin | shuǐ |
| kMatthews | 5922 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2777 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ015035 |
| kMorohashi | 17083 |
| kNelson | 2482 |
| kPhonetic | 1253 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2603+85.4.0 |
| kRSUnicode | 85.0 |
| kSBGY | 249.07 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+6C35<kMatthews |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 354.04 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | shuǐ粵seoi2 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 3055 |
| kTang | *shuǐ |
| kTGHZ2013 | 344.130:shuǐ |
| kTotalStrokes | 4 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | thuỷ |
| kXerox | 241:255 |
| kXHC1983 | 1075.010:shuǐ |