U+6C5E "汞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
汞
U+6C5E "汞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a logogram used in East Asian languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, where it represents the element mercury. In Chinese, it is pronounced "gǒng" and historically denoted liquid silver or quicksilver, often associated with alchemy, traditional medicine, and thermometers. The character is composed of the radical for water (氵, often simplified as 氺 in this form) and the component "工" (gōng, meaning work or skill), reflecting its fluid nature and ancient applications. As a standardized character in the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideograph block, it maintains consistent meaning across writing systems, though stroke order and pronunciation vary by language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+6C5E |
| 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 | 汞 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 汞 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0xB1 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x6C5E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00006C5E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u6c5e |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A845 |
| kCCCII | 214662 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4A66 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4A66 |
| kCangjie | ME |
| kCantonese | hung3 |
| kCihaiT | 767.102 |
| kCowles | 1244 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0999.120 |
| kDefinition | mercury (element 80, Hg) |
| kEACC | 214662 |
| kFanqie | 胡孔 |
| kFourCornerCode | 1023.2 |
| kGB0 | 2515 |
| kGB1 | 2515 |
| kHangul | 홍:0N |
| kHanYu | 31550.010 |
| kHanyuPinlu | gǒng(22) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 31550.010:gǒng |
| kHKGlyph | 2121 |
| kIICore | AGTHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0999.120 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 31550.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0606.030 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-392F |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A845 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-5D67 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F4CC |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-7B71 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4A66 |
| kJapanese | コウ グ ク みずがね |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:628 |
| kJapaneseKun | MIZUGANE |
| kJapaneseOn | KOU |
| kJis0 | 6171 |
| kKangXi | 0606.030 |
| kKarlgren | 469 |
| kKorean | HONG |
| kLau | 1266 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 3074 |
| kMandarin | gǒng |
| kMatthews | 2382 |
| kMeyerWempe | 837a |
| kMojiJoho | MJ015081 |
| kMorohashi | 17139 |
| kNelson | 1456 |
| kPhonetic | 530 684 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+5382+48.3.4 C+5382+85.4.3 |
| kRSUnicode | 85.3 |
| kSBGY | 236.41 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 355.15 190.12 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | gǒng粵hung3 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 3074 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 114.130:gǒng |
| kTotalStrokes | 7 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kXerox | 262:112 |
| kXHC1983 | 0387.020:gǒng |