U+6DA1 "涡" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
涡
U+6DA1 "涡" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese ideograph that primarily serves as a simplified form of the traditional character 渦, carrying the core meanings of "whirlpool," "eddy," or "swirl." It is composed of the water radical on the left, indicating a relation to liquid or flow, and a phonetic component on the right. In modern usage, it appears in geographic names like the Guō River in Anhui, China, and in common compounds such as 漩涡 (xuánwō), meaning whirlpool or vortex, and 涡轮 (wōlún), which refers to a turbine. The character thus conveys concepts of circular motion or twisting currents in both natural and technical contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+6DA1 |
| 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 | 涡 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 涡 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0xB6 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x6DA1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00006DA1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u6da1 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 274831 |
| kCangjie | EROB |
| kCantonese | wo1 |
| kDefinition | swirl, whirlpool, eddy |
| kEACC | 274831 |
| kFourCornerCode | 3612 |
| kGB0 | 4648 |
| kHanYu | 31624.070 |
| kHanyuPinlu | wō(43) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 31624.070 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0627.311 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4E50 |
| kTGH | 2013:2072 |
| kKangXi | 0627.311 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 3260 |
| kMandarin | wō |
| kPhonetic | 700* |
| kRSUnicode | 85.7 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 368.17 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 126.030:guō 387.020:wō |
| kTotalStrokes | 10 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "渦" U+6E26 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0422.100:guō 1208.160:wō |