U+6C37 "氷" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

氷

U+6C37 "氷" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents the concept of ice, serving as a variant or alternative form of the more common character 冰 (bīng). In Japanese, this character is known as "kōri" and is used in compounds like 氷山 (hyōzan, meaning iceberg) or 氷水 (kōrimizu, meaning ice water), while in Chinese it appears in both traditional and simplified contexts primarily as a synonym for ice. Historically, its structure derives from the radical for water, 水, with a slight graphical modification, often rendered as a left-hand component or standalone character to denote frozen water. This character is classified under the Kangxi Radical 85 (水) and is present in various East Asian writing systems, including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, highlighting its shared linguistic heritage across these regions.

General Properties

Code Point	U+6C37
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	氷
HTML Hex Encoding	氷
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE6 0xB0 0xB7
UTF-16 Encoding	0x6C37
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00006C37
C/C++/Java Escape	\u6c37

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Ideographic
East Asian Width	Wide
Script	Han
Script Extensions	Han
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	OLetter
Ideographic	Yes
Unified Ideograph	Yes

Unihan Properties

kCCCII	33333C
kCNS1986	E-2257
kCNS1992	3-2257
kCangjie	IE
kCantonese	bing1
kCihaiT	763.101
kDaeJaweon	0996.030
kDefinition	ice, frost, icicles; cold
kEACC	33333C
kFenn	520C
kFennIndex	413.05
kFourCornerCode	3223.0
kHangul	빙:0E
kHanYu	31546.040
kIICore	AJKP
kIRGDaeJaweon	0996.030
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	31546.040
kIRGKangXi	0603.030
kIRG_GSource	GE-3E79
kIRG_HSource	H-FD72
kIRG_JSource	J0-4939
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-E0A5
kIRG_KSource	K0-5E3C
kIRG_TSource	T3-2257
kJapanese	ヒョウギョウこおりひこおる
kJoyoKanji	2010
kKoreanEducationHanja	2007
kJapaneseKun	KOORI HI
kJapaneseOn	HYOU
kJis0	4125
kKangXi	0603.030
kKorean	PING
kLau	103
kMandarin	bīng
kMatthews	5283
kMojiJoho	MJ015038
kMorohashi	17087
kNelson	0131
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+3499+85.4.1
kRSUnicode	85.1
kSemanticVariant	U+51AB<kMatthews U+51B0<kLau,kMatthews
kSMSZD2003Index	354.06
kTaiwanTelegraph	3056
kTotalStrokes	5
kUnihanCore2020	HJKP
kXerox	322:145
kXHC1983	0075.151:bīng