U+6D3B "活" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
活
U+6D3B "活" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (Hanzi) that primarily means "to live," "alive," "lively," or "active," and it is frequently used in compound words such as "生活" (life) and "活动" (activity). This ideograph consists of the water radical on the left, suggesting fluidity or movement, combined with the phonetic component on the right, and it appears across multiple East Asian writing systems, including traditional and simplified Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. In a broader cultural context, the character "活" embodies a fundamental concept of vitality and existence, often appearing in philosophical and everyday discourse to denote not just biological life but also a state of dynamic energy or adaptability.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+6D3B |
| 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 | 活 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 活 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0xB4 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x6D3B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00006D3B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u6d3b |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | ACA1 |
| kCCCII | 214744 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5224 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5224 |
| kCangjie | EHJR |
| kCantonese | wut6 |
| kCihaiT | 790.204 |
| kCowles | 3157 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1018.160 |
| kDefinition | live, exist, survive; lively |
| kEACC | 214744 |
| kFanqie | 古活 戶括 |
| kFenn | 707A |
| kFennIndex | 214.01 |
| kFourCornerCode | 3216.4 |
| kGB0 | 2778 |
| kGB1 | 2778 |
| kGradeLevel | 2 |
| kGSR | 0302m |
| kHangul | 활:0E |
| kHanYu | 31609.020 |
| kHanyuPinlu | huó(1755) huo(54) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 31609.020:guō,huó |
| kHKGlyph | 2175 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1018.160 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 31609.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0622.180 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3B6E |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-ACA1 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3368 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F6D6 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-7C40 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5224 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-5C41 |
| kJapanese | カツ ガチ いかす いきる よみがえる |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:1672 |
| kJapaneseKun | IKIRU YOMIGAERU |
| kJapaneseOn | KATSU |
| kJis0 | 1972 |
| kKangXi | 0622.180 |
| kKarlgren | 119 |
| kKorean | HWAL KWAL |
| kLau | 3300 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 3172 |
| kMandarin | huó |
| kMatthews | 2401 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2191 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ015321 |
| kMorohashi | 17423 |
| kNelson | 2552 |
| kPhonetic | 736 1470 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1478+85.3.6 C+1478+135.6.3 |
| kRSUnicode | 85.6 |
| kSBGY | 485.53 486.18 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 364.15 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | huó粵wut6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 3172 |
| kTang | huɑt |
| kTGHZ2013 | 151.010:huó |
| kTotalStrokes | 9 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | hoạt |
| kXerox | 242:047 |
| kXHC1983 | 0509.070:huó |