U+6CB8 "沸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
沸
U+6CB8 "沸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to boil" or "to bubble up," as in the action of water boiling when heated. It is composed of the radical for water (氵) on the left side, indicating its association with liquids, and the phonetic component "弗" on the right, which contributes to its pronunciation in Mandarin as "fèi." This character is commonly used in words related to boiling or effervescence, such as "沸腾" (fèiténg) meaning "boiling" or "seething," and appears across various contexts in Chinese writing, from cooking and chemistry to metaphorical descriptions of excitement or turmoil.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+6CB8 |
| 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 | 沸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 沸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0xB2 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x6CB8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00006CB8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u6cb8 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | AA6D |
| kCCCII | 214723 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4E50 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4E50 |
| kCangjie | ELLN |
| kCantonese | fai3 |
| kCihaiT | 776.102 |
| kCowles | 654 694 732 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1007.060 |
| kDefinition | boil, bubble up, gush |
| kEACC | 214723 |
| kFanqie | 方味 |
| kFenn | 252H |
| kFennIndex | 133.11 |
| kFourCornerCode | 3512.7 |
| kGB0 | 2348 |
| kGB1 | 2348 |
| kGradeLevel | 4 |
| kGSR | 0500q |
| kHangul | 비:0N |
| kHanYu | 31597.010 |
| kHanyuPinlu | fèi(25) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 31597.010:fèi,fú |
| kHKGlyph | 2152 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1007.060 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 31597.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0614.020 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3750 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-AA6D |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4A28 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-DFDC |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5D73 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4E50 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-5B79 |
| kJapanese | フツ ヒ フチ ハイ ヘ わく わかす |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:1259 |
| kJapaneseKun | WAKU WAKASU |
| kJapaneseOn | FUTSU |
| kJis0 | 4208 |
| kKangXi | 0614.020 |
| kKarlgren | 47 |
| kKorean | PI PWUL |
| kLau | 664 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 3110 |
| kMandarin | fèi |
| kMatthews | 1845 |
| kMeyerWempe | 496e |
| kMojiJoho | MJ015179 |
| kMorohashi | 17251 |
| kNelson | 2524 |
| kPhonetic | 358 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+3576+85.3.5 |
| kRSUnicode | 85.5 |
| kSBGY | 359.22 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+3D52<kFenn |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 359.02 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | fèi粵fai3 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 3110 |
| kTang | piə̀i |
| kTGHZ2013 | 095.190:fèi |
| kTotalStrokes | 8 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | phí |
| kXerox | 257:117 |
| kXHC1983 | 0317.040:fèi |