U+6CB9 "油" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
油
U+6CB9 "油" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "oil," "fat," or "grease," and it is composed of the water radical on the left and the phonetic component "由" on the right. It is widely used in East Asian languages, including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, to refer to cooking oils, petroleum, and other oily substances. In everyday contexts, it appears in words like "石油" (petroleum) and "黄油" (butter), and its usage extends to metaphorical expressions, such as "加油" (literally "add oil," meaning to cheer someone on or to make an effort). This character reflects the cultural and practical importance of oil in cooking, industry, and idiomatic language across these regions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+6CB9 |
| 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 | 油 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 油 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0xB2 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x6CB9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00006CB9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u6cb9 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | AA6F |
| kCCCII | 21472E |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4E52 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4E52 |
| kCangjie | ELW |
| kCantonese | jau4 |
| kCihaiT | 776.201 |
| kCowles | 5149 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1007.080 |
| kDefinition | oil, fat, grease, lard; paints |
| kEACC | 21472E |
| kFanqie | 以周 余救 |
| kFenn | 818A |
| kFennIndex | 636.07 |
| kFourCornerCode | 3516.0 |
| kGB0 | 5145 |
| kGB1 | 5145 |
| kGradeLevel | 1 |
| kGSR | 1079c |
| kHangul | 유:0E |
| kHanYu | 31585.010 |
| kHanyuPinlu | yóu(822) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 31585.010:yóu,yòu |
| kHKGlyph | 2155 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1007.080 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 31585.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0614.040 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-534D |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-AA6F |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4C7D |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-FBC7 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6A7A |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4E52 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-5B7A |
| kJapanese | ユ ユウ あぶら |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:1248 |
| kJapaneseKun | ABURA |
| kJapaneseOn | YU YUU |
| kJis0 | 4493 |
| kKangXi | 0614.040 |
| kKarlgren | 253 |
| kKorean | YU |
| kLau | 3352 3353 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 3111 |
| kMandarin | yóu |
| kMatthews | 7515 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3848 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ015180 |
| kMorohashi | 17253 |
| kNelson | 2534 |
| kPhonetic | 1512 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+3849+85.3.5 |
| kRSUnicode | 85.5 |
| kSBGY | 204.28 437.07 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 359.03 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | yóu粵jau4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 3111 |
| kTang | iou |
| kTGHZ2013 | 443.070:yóu |
| kTotalStrokes | 8 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | dầu |
| kXerox | 244:141 |
| kXHC1983 | 1397.120:yóu |