U+6C5F "江" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
江
U+6C5F "江" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a logogram representing the Chinese character for "river," commonly pronounced as "jiāng" in Mandarin. It consists of the water radical (氵) on the left, indicating its association with water, and a phonetic component (工) on the right, which hints at its sound. This character is used in various East Asian languages that employ Chinese characters, including Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese, and appears in words such as the Yangtze River (长江) as well as in names and compounds like "garden" (江戸, meaning Edo, an old name for Tokyo). Its structure and meaning reflect a foundational concept in geography and culture, linking written form to natural landscapes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+6C5F |
| 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 | 江 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 江 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0xB1 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x6C5F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00006C5F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u6c5f |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A6BF |
| kCCCII | 214664 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4840 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4840 |
| kCangjie | EM |
| kCantonese | gong1 |
| kCihaiT | 765.101 |
| kCowles | 1771 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0999.130 |
| kDefinition | large river; the Yangzi; surname |
| kEACC | 214664 |
| kFanqie | 古雙 |
| kFenn | 8B |
| kFennIndex | 44.05 |
| kFourCornerCode | 3111.0 |
| kGB0 | 2913 |
| kGB1 | 2913 |
| kGradeLevel | 5 |
| kGSR | 1172v |
| kHangul | 강:0E |
| kHanYu | 31551.030 |
| kHanyuPinlu | jiāng(299) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 31551.030:jiāng |
| kHKGlyph | 2115 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0999.130 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 31551.030 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0606.040 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3D2D |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A6BF |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-393E |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-CEB1 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-4B30 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4840 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-5B64 |
| kJapanese | コウ ゴウ え うみ |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:538 |
| kJapaneseKun | E |
| kJapaneseOn | KOU |
| kJis0 | 2530 |
| kKangXi | 0606.040 |
| kKarlgren | 350 |
| kKorean | KANG |
| kLau | 962 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 3068 |
| kMandarin | jiāng |
| kMatthews | 638 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1238 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ015082 |
| kMorohashi | 17140 |
| kNelson | 2491 |
| kPhonetic | 655 684 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2000+48.3.3 C+2000+85.3.3 |
| kRSUnicode | 85.3 |
| kSBGY | 038.30 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 355.16 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | jiāng粵gong1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 3068 |
| kTang | *gang |
| kTGHZ2013 | 166.130:jiāng |
| kTotalStrokes | 6 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | giang |
| kXerox | 242:170 |
| kXHC1983 | 0559.040:jiāng |