U+6D77 "海" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
海
U+6D77 "海" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a logogram used in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems, where it primarily means "sea" or "ocean." Its structure combines the water radical (氵) on the left, indicating its semantic connection to water, with the phonetic component 每 on the right, which suggests pronunciation cues. In modern usage, this character appears in common words for marine concepts, such as "大海" (dàhǎi) meaning "big sea" or "大海" (Ōcean) in Japanese, and it also carries cultural significance as a symbol of vastness and depth in East Asian art and literature.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+6D77 |
| 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 | 海 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 海 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0xB5 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x6D77 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00006D77 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u6d77 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | AEFC |
| kCCCII | 214757 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5640 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5640 |
| kCangjie | EOWY |
| kCantonese | hoi2 |
| kCihaiT | 795.404 |
| kCowles | 1125 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1023.110 |
| kDefinition | sea, ocean; maritime |
| kEACC | 214757 |
| kFanqie | 呼改 |
| kFenn | 572A |
| kFennIndex | 146.04 |
| kFourCornerCode | 3815.7 |
| kGB0 | 2603 |
| kGB1 | 2603 |
| kGradeLevel | 2 |
| kGSR | 0947x |
| kHangul | 해:0EN |
| kHanYu | 31627.010 |
| kHanyuPinlu | hǎi(914) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 31627.010:hǎi |
| kHKGlyph | 2192 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1023.110 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 31627.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0625.140 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3A23 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-AEFC |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3324 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F5C3 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-7A2D |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5640 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-5C49 |
| kJapanese | カイ うみ |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:2074 |
| kJapaneseKun | UMI |
| kJapaneseOn | KAI |
| kJis0 | 1904 |
| kKangXi | 0625.140 |
| kKorean | HAY |
| kLau | 1209 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 3189 |
| kMandarin | hǎi |
| kMatthews | 2014 |
| kMeyerWempe | 759 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ015371 MJ030266:FE00 MJ015371:E0102 MJ030266:E0103 |
| kMorohashi | 17450 17503:FE00 17450:E0102 17503:E0103 |
| kNelson | 2553 2556 |
| kPhonetic | 489 927 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1410+85.3.6 |
| kRSUnicode | 85.7 |
| kSBGY | 273.37 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 367.03 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | hǎi粵hoi2 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 3189 |
| kTang | *xə̌i |
| kTGHZ2013 | 129.010:hǎi |
| kTotalStrokes | 10 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | hải |
| kXerox | 242:051 |
| kXHC1983 | 0432.060:hǎi |