U+6D9B "涛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
涛
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
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 |