U+6E09 "渉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+6E09 "渉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) and Japanese kanji that primarily conveys the meaning of "ford," "crossing," or "to wade through water." It is composed of the water radical (氵) on the left, indicating its aquatic association, and the phonetic component 歩 (bu, meaning "step" or "walk") on the right, which suggests the action of moving through a shallow body of water. In modern usage, this character appears in terms such as 交渉 (kōshō) in Japanese, meaning "negotiation" or "dealings," where the sense of crossing or navigating between parties is metaphorically extended. It is a common character in both Chinese and Japanese writing, distinct from the similar character 涉 (with three strokes on the right) due to a variant form in Japanese shinjitai simplification.

General Properties

Code Point U+6E09
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 渉
HTML Hex Encoding 渉
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE6 0xB8 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding 0x6E09
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00006E09
C/C++/Java Escape \u6e09

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

kCNS1986 E-3725
kCNS1992 3-3725
kCangjie XEYLH
kCantonese sip3
kDefinition ford stream
kFourCornerCode 3112.9
kHanYu 80023.200
kIICore AJ
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 80023.200
kIRGKangXi 0633.371
kIRG_GSource GE-3F4C
kIRG_JSource J0-3E44
kIRG_KPSource KP1-51CD
kIRG_TSource T3-3725
kJapanese ショウ ジョウ チョウ かかわる わたる
kJoyoKanji 2010
kJapaneseKun WATARU KAKAWARU
kJapaneseOn SHOU
kJis0 3036
kKangXi 0633.371
kKorean SEP
kMandarin shè
kMojiJoho MJ015527
kMorohashi 17749'
kNelson 2591
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+2476+85.3.8
kRSUnicode 85.8
kTotalStrokes 11
kUnihanCore2020 J