U+6CF9 "泹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
泹
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
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 |