U+6DE4 "淤" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
淤
U+6DE4 "淤" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily conveys the meaning of silt, sediment, or mud, often as a result of water stagnating or accumulation. It is composed of the water radical 氵 on the left, indicating its association with liquids or water, and a phonetic component on the right that hints at its pronunciation, which is yū. This character appears in contexts related to geography and environmental science, such as in terms for "siltation" or "sedimentation," and it can also be used metaphorically to describe obstruction or congestion, as in the concept of "stagnation" within bodily or systemic processes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+6DE4 |
| 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 | 淤 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 淤 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0xB7 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x6DE4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00006DE4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u6de4 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B24A |
| kCCCII | 21475C |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5B4F |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5B4F |
| kCangjie | EYSY |
| kCantonese | jyu1 |
| kCihaiT | 803.401 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1033.030 |
| kDefinition | mud, sediment; clog up, silt up |
| kEACC | 21475C |
| kFanqie | 央居 依倨 |
| kFenn | 263F |
| kFennIndex | 642.02 |
| kFourCornerCode | 3813.3 |
| kGB0 | 5157 |
| kGB1 | 5157 |
| kHangul | 어:1N |
| kHanYu | 31660.010 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 31660.010:yū |
| kHKGlyph | 2203 |
| kIICore | AGTHM |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1033.030 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 31660.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0630.230 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5359 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B24A |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-5E4B |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-51FD |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-6728 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5B4F |
| kIRG_VSource | V0-3B47 |
| kJapanese | オ ヨ どろ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:2429 |
| kJapaneseKun | DORO |
| kJapaneseOn | YO O |
| kJis0 | 6243 |
| kKangXi | 0630.230 |
| kKorean | E |
| kLau | 3519 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 3226 |
| kMandarin | yū |
| kMatthews | 7645 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3619a |
| kMojiJoho | MJ015484 |
| kMorohashi | 17665 |
| kPhonetic | 1601 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+5448+85.3.8 V+20157+85.3.8 |
| kRSUnicode | 85.8 |
| kSBGY | 069.39 362.49 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 370.05 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | yū粵jyu1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 3226 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 445.150:yū |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJMT |
| kVietnamese | ứa |
| kXerox | 260:265 |
| kXHC1983 | 1406.040:yū |