U+6D8E "涎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
涎
U+6D8E "涎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that represents the concept of saliva or slobber, often used in literary or medical contexts to denote drool or spittle, and extends metaphorically to imply covetousness or excessive desire when used in compound words like "垂涎" (to drool with envy or to yearn for something). This character is composed of the water radical on the left, indicating its association with liquid, and a phonetic component on the right that suggests its pronunciation in Mandarin as "xián". It appears in classical texts and modern usage primarily within the East Asian cultural sphere, reflecting both a literal bodily function and a figurative expression of intense longing or greed.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+6D8E |
| 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 | 涎 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 涎 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0xB6 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x6D8E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00006D8E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u6d8e |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B243 |
| kCCCII | 214775 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5B48 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5B48 |
| kCangjie | ENKM |
| kCantonese | jin4 |
| kCihaiT | 801.302 |
| kCowles | 1357 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1029.020 |
| kDefinition | saliva |
| kEACC | 214775 |
| kFanqie | 夕連 于線 |
| kFenn | 128F |
| kFennIndex | 179.03 624.04 |
| kFourCornerCode | 3214.1 |
| kGB0 | 4749 |
| kGB1 | 4749 |
| kHangul | 연:0N |
| kHanYu | 31610.010 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 31610.010:xián,yàn,diàn |
| kHKGlyph | 2197 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1029.020 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 31610.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0626.210 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4F51 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B243 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-5E37 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F8EA |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-664E |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5B48 |
| kJapanese | エン セン ゼン よだれ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:4339 |
| kJapaneseKun | YODARE |
| kJapaneseOn | SEN EN |
| kJis0 | 6223 |
| kKangXi | 0626.210 |
| kKarlgren | 235 |
| kKorean | YEN |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 3241 |
| kMandarin | xián |
| kMatthews | 2714 |
| kMeyerWempe | 896a |
| kMojiJoho | MJ015397 MJ015397:E0101 MJ015398:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 17536 17536:E0101 |
| kNelson | 2560 |
| kPhonetic | 1578 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+5428+85.3.7 |
| kRSUnicode | 85.7 |
| kSBGY | 141.37 412.07 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+3CC4<kMatthews |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 368.02 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | xián粵jin4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 3241 |
| kTang | ziɛn |
| kTGHZ2013 | 398.060:xián |
| kTotalStrokes | 9 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kXerox | 261:336 |
| kXHC1983 | 1248.020:xián |