U+6C43 "汃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+6C43 "汃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and ancient Chinese character that is not commonly used in modern standard Mandarin or Japanese. Its meanings are obscure, but traditional dictionaries and scholarly interpretations link it primarily to a term for a type of river or water current, sometimes glossed as "the sound of water" or "water flowing with force." The character is composed of the radical "水" (water, simplified as the three-dot water component on the left) and a phonetic component, though its exact etymology and usage remain largely confined to classical texts or specialized historical linguistics. Because of its rarity, it may not appear in most contemporary digital font sets and is of interest primarily to Unicode enthusiasts, Sinologists, and those studying archaic Chinese scripts.

General Properties

Code Point U+6C43
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 汃
HTML Hex Encoding 汃
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE6 0xB1 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding 0x6C43
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00006C43
C/C++/Java Escape \u6c43

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

kBigFive C9A2
kCCCII 224675
kCNS1986 2-2161
kCNS1992 2-2161
kCangjie EC
kCihaiT 763.401
kDaeJaweon 0998.020
kFanqie 府巾 普八
kFourCornerCode 3810.0
kGB3 5114
kHangul 팔:1N
kHanYu 31548.080
kHanyuPinyin 31548.080:bīn,pà,pā
kIRGDaeJaweon 0998.020
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 31548.080
kIRGKangXi 0604.050
kIRG_GSource G3-532E
kIRG_HSource HB2-C9A2
kIRG_JSource JMJ-015050
kIRG_KPSource KP1-5078
kIRG_KSource K1-7177
kIRG_TSource T2-2161
kJapanese ハツ ハチ ヒン
kKoreanName 2015
kKangXi 0604.050
kKorean PHA
kMandarin bīn
kMojiJoho MJ015050
kMorohashi 17106
kRSUnicode 85.2
kSBGY 106.23 489.59
kTotalStrokes 5
kUnihanCore2020 HMT