U+6DC5 "淅" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+6DC5 "淅" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that primarily refers to the action of washing or rinsing rice, often associated with the sound or process of water flowing over grains. In classical and modern Chinese, it appears in terms like "淅瀝" (xīlì), which describes the gentle, pattering sound of rain or a light drizzle. The character is composed of the water radical (氵) on the left, indicating its association with liquid, and the phonetic component "析" on the right, which provides a clue to its pronunciation (xī). While less common in everyday simplified Chinese texts, it retains usage in literary and poetic contexts where nuanced descriptions of water sounds or rice washing are needed, reflecting its historical roots in agricultural and onomatopoeic language.

General Properties

Code Point	U+6DC5
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	淅
HTML Hex Encoding	淅
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE6 0xB7 0x85
UTF-16 Encoding	0x6DC5
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00006DC5
C/C++/Java Escape	\u6dc5

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

kBigFive	B258
kCCCII	214764
kCNS1986	1-5B5D
kCNS1992	1-5B5D
kCangjie	EDHL
kCantonese	sik1
kCihaiT	804.402
kDaeJaweon	1031.010
kDefinition	water used wash rice; to wash rice
kEACC	214764
kFanqie	先擊
kFourCornerCode	3212.1
kGB0	6832
kGB1	6832
kGSR	0857e
kHangul	석:0N
kHanYu	31642.070
kHanyuPinyin	31642.070:xī
kHKGlyph	2214
kIICore	AGTHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	1031.010
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	31642.070
kIRGKangXi	0629.050
kIRG_GSource	G0-6440
kIRG_HSource	HB1-B258
kIRG_JSource	J0-5E48
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-E2A9
kIRG_KSource	K0-6032
kIRG_TSource	T1-5B5D
kJapanese	セキ シャク とぐ
kKoreanName	2015
kTGH	2013:4966
kJapaneseKun	YONAGU KASHONE
kJapaneseOn	SEKI
kJis0	6240
kKangXi	0629.050
kKorean	SEK
kMainlandTelegraph	3215
kMandarin	xī
kMatthews	2491
kMeyerWempe	2802b
kMojiJoho	MJ015446
kMorohashi	17617
kPhonetic	207 1192
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+5445+85.3.8
kRSUnicode	85.8
kSBGY	520.17
kSMSZD2003Index	369.07
kSMSZD2003Readings	xī粵sik1
kTaiwanTelegraph	3215
kTGHZ2013	392.050:xī
kTotalStrokes	11
kUnihanCore2020	GHJKMPT
kXerox	300:053
kXHC1983	1228.100:xī