U+6CA5 "沥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
沥
U+6CA5 "沥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese ideograph that primarily conveys the meaning of "to drip" or "to strain," often used in the context of liquids passing through a filter or dripping slowly. In modern Chinese, it appears in words like "沥青" (lìqīng), meaning "asphalt" or "pitch," and "沥水" (lìshuǐ), meaning "to drain water." Historically, this character combines the water radical (氵) on the left with the phonetic component "历" (lì), which also contributes the pronunciation. As a versatile component in written Chinese, it appears in both everyday vocabulary and technical terms related to liquids and filtration processes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+6CA5 |
| 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 | 沥 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 沥 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0xB2 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x6CA5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00006CA5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u6ca5 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 27493B |
| kCangjie | EMKS |
| kCantonese | lik6 |
| kDefinition | trickle, drip; strain; dregs |
| kEACC | 27493B |
| kFourCornerCode | 3112 |
| kGB0 | 3304 |
| kHanYu | 31561.030 |
| kHanyuPinlu | lì(28) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 31561.030 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0612.121 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4124 |
| kTGH | 2013:859 |
| kKangXi | 0612.121 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 3468 |
| kMandarin | lì |
| kPhonetic | 803* |
| kRSUnicode | 85.4 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 358.13 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 217.100:lì |
| kTotalStrokes | 7 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "瀝" U+701D CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0700.010:lì |