U+6CEA "泪" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

泪

U+6CEA "泪" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily functions as a noun meaning "tear" or "teardrops," representing the liquid secreted from the eyes during emotional states such as sadness or joy. Its composition visually combines the radical for water "氵" on the left with the character for eye "目" on the right, creating a vivid pictophonetic structure where the eye indicates the source and the water radical signifies the fluid. In modern Chinese, "泪" is used in words like 眼泪 (yǎnlèi, tears) and 泪流满面 (lèi liú mǎn miàn, tears streaming down the face), and it frequently appears in classical poetry as a poignant symbol of grief or nostalgia. Beyond its literal meaning, the character also metaphorically conveys sorrow or empathy in cultural and literary contexts across East Asia.

General Properties

Code Point	U+6CEA
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	泪
HTML Hex Encoding	泪
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE6 0xB3 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding	0x6CEA
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00006CEA
C/C++/Java Escape	\u6cea

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

kCCCII	224777
kCNS1986	E-2967
kCNS1992	3-2967
kCangjie	EBU
kCantonese	leoi6
kCihaiT	785.506
kCowles	2498
kDefinition	tears; weep, cry
kEACC	274759
kFennIndex	293.01
kFourCornerCode	3610.0
kGB0	3265
kGB1	3265
kHanYu	31583.080
kHanyuPinlu	lèi(233)
kIICore	AGJ
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	31583.080
kIRGKangXi	0618.070
kIRG_GSource	G0-4061
kIRG_HSource	H-9FFC
kIRG_JSource	J0-5E25
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-50DB
kIRG_KSource	K2-3F7D
kIRG_TSource	T3-2967
kIRG_VSource	V1-5C2F
kJapanese	ルイなみだ
kTGH	2013:1246
kJapaneseKun	NAMIDA
kJapaneseOn	RUI REI
kJis0	6205
kKangXi	0618.070
kLau	1999
kMainlandTelegraph	3223
kMandarin	lèi
kMatthews	4243
kMeyerWempe	1684
kMojiJoho	MJ015238
kMorohashi	17318
kNelson	2510
kPhonetic	845 933
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+5410+85.3.5 C+5410+109.5.3
kRSUnicode	85.5
kSemanticVariant	U+6DDA<kLau,kMatthews,kMeyerWempe
kSimplifiedVariant	"泪" U+6CEA CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	362.11
kTGHZ2013	213.140:lèi
kTotalStrokes	8
kTraditionalVariant	"泪" U+6CEA CJK Unified Ideograph-# "淚" U+6DDA CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	GHJ
kVietnamese	lệ
kXHC1983	0686.090:lèi