U+6D9F "涟" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
涟
U+6D9F "涟" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) used in both traditional and simplified scripts, primarily meaning "ripple" or "small wave." It consists of a water radical on the left, indicating its association with water, and a phonetic component on the right derived from the character meaning "to connect" or "to link." This character frequently appears in classical and modern Chinese poetry and prose to describe the gentle, undulating movements of water surfaces, conveying a sense of calm and fluid motion. It is also found in compound words like "涟漪" (liányī), which specifically refers to a series of ripples or a gentle wave pattern.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+6D9F |
| 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 | 涟 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 涟 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0xB6 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x6D9F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00006D9F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u6d9f |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 274859 |
| kCangjie | EYKQ |
| kCantonese | lin4 |
| kDefinition | flowing water; ripples; weeping |
| kEACC | 274859 |
| kFourCornerCode | 3413 |
| kGB0 | 3316 |
| kHanYu | 31620.110 |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 31620.110 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0633.371 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4130 |
| kTGH | 2013:4647 |
| kKangXi | 0633.371 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 3353 |
| kMandarin | lián |
| kRSUnicode | 85.7 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 368.18 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 219.070:lián |
| kTotalStrokes | 10 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "漣" U+6F23 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0704.010:lián |