U+6C61 "污" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

污

U+6C61 "污" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily meaning "dirt," "filth," or "pollution," and it is composed of the radical for water (氵) on the left side, indicating a connection to liquids, and the phonetic component 亏 on the right. In modern usage, it appears in words related to uncleanliness, such as 污染 (wūrǎn, meaning pollution), 污垢 (wūgòu, meaning grime), and 贪污 (tānwū, meaning corruption). The character plays a significant role in environmental, social, and moral contexts, often describing physical impurity or metaphorical contamination. This distinctive glyph is encoded in the Unicode standard as part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, representing its widespread use across East Asian writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+6C61
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	污
HTML Hex Encoding	污
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE6 0xB1 0xA1
UTF-16 Encoding	0x6C61
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00006C61
C/C++/Java Escape	\u6c61

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	A6C3
kCCCII	334665
kCNS1986	1-4844
kCNS1992	1-4844
kCangjie	EMMS
kCantonese	wu1
kCihaiT	764.501
kDefinition	filthy, dirty, impure, polluted
kEACC	334665
kFanqie	哀都
kFourCornerCode	3112.7
kGB0	4659
kGB1	4659
kGradeLevel	4
kGSR	0097c'
kHanYu	31551.010
kHanyuPinlu	wū(107)
kHKGlyph	2114
kIICore	AGTHM
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	31551.010
kIRGKangXi	0607.051
kIRG_GSource	G0-4E5B
kIRG_HSource	HB1-A6C3
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-015085
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-5093
kIRG_TSource	T1-4844
kIRG_VSource	V1-5B66
kJapanese	オけがす
kTGH	2013:537
kJapaneseKun	KEGASU KEGARERU YOGOSU KITANAI
kJapaneseOn	O
kKangXi	0607.051
kKorean	O
kLau	3264
kMainlandTelegraph	3064
kMandarin	wū
kMojiJoho	MJ015085
kMorohashi	17134
kPhonetic	1602B*
kRSUnicode	85.3
kSBGY	085.09
kSemanticVariant	U+6C59<kLau
kSMSZD2003Index	355.18
kSMSZD2003Readings	wū粵wu1
kTang	qo qò
kTGHZ2013	388.030:wū
kTotalStrokes	6
kUnihanCore2020	GHMT
kVietnamese	ô
kXerox	252:165
kXHC1983	1210.090:wū