U+6CF9 "泹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+6CF9 "泹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily used in historical or specialized contexts, with its most common meaning being "to soak in water" or "to steep," often referring to a method of cooking or processing food by boiling or immersing in hot liquid. It appears in traditional Chinese culinary descriptions, particularly for preparing ingredients like noodles or vegetables by briefly scalding them. As part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, it shares the same encoding across these East Asian languages, though it is now considered relatively rare in modern usage compared to more common characters.

General Properties

Code Point U+6CF9
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 泹
HTML Hex Encoding 泹
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE6 0xB3 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding 0x6CF9
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00006CF9
C/C++/Java Escape \u6cf9

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 CD4C
kCCCII 224778
kCNS1986 2-276C
kCNS1992 2-276C
kCangjie EAM
kCantonese daan3
kFourCornerCode 3611.2
kHanYu 31584.011
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 31584.011
kIRGKangXi 0619.121
kIRG_GSource GE-3F2D
kIRG_HSource HB2-CD4C
kIRG_KSource K2-4024
kIRG_TSource T2-276C
kKangXi 0619.121
kMandarin dàn
kPhonetic 1296*
kRSUnicode 85.5
kTotalStrokes 8
kUnihanCore2020 HMT