U+6D9B "涛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+6D9B "涛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese logogram that represents the concept of "big waves" or "surge," commonly used in modern and classical Chinese writing. Composed of the water radical on the left and a phonetic component on the right, it conveys a sense of powerful, rolling water, often in poetic or descriptive contexts. In English, it is typically translated as "wave" or "billow," and it appears in words like "波涛" meaning "turbulent waves" and as a component in personal names or place names across East Asian cultures. Its significance lies in its vivid imagery of natural force and motion, reflecting a core element of Chinese linguistic and cultural expression.

General Properties

Code Point U+6D9B
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 涛
HTML Hex Encoding 涛
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE6 0xB6 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding 0x6D9B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00006D9B
C/C++/Java Escape \u6d9b

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

kCCCII 27492D
kCNS1986 E-317C
kCNS1992 3-317C
kCangjie EQKI
kCantonese tou4
kDefinition large waves
kEACC 27492D
kFourCornerCode 3414.1
kGB0 4446
kHanYu 31618.110
kHanyuPinlu tāo(21)
kIICore AGJ
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 31618.110
kIRGKangXi 0627.311
kIRG_GSource G0-4C4E
kIRG_JSource J0-4573
kIRG_TSource T3-317C
kJapanese トウ なみ
kTGH 2013:2065
kJapaneseKun NAMI
kJapaneseOn TOU
kJis0 3783
kKangXi 0627.311
kMainlandTelegraph 3447
kMandarin tāo
kMojiJoho MJ015410
kMorohashi H303
kPhonetic 1149*
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+3181+85.3.7
kRSUnicode 85.7
kSimplifiedVariant "涛" U+6D9B CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index 368.14
kTGHZ2013 361.060:tāo
kTotalStrokes 10
kTraditionalVariant "涛" U+6D9B CJK Unified Ideograph-#
"濤" U+6FE4 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 GJ
kXHC1983 1120.100:tāo