U+6E10 "渐" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
渐
U+6E10 "渐" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "gradually" or "by degrees," often used in words like "渐渐" (jiànjiàn, meaning "gradually") and "渐进" (jiànjìn, meaning "progressive" or "incremental"). It is composed of the water radical 氵 on the left and the phonetic component 斩 (zhǎn) on the right, reflecting its historical formation as a phono-semantic compound. In modern Chinese, this character conveys a sense of slow, continuous change over time, and it appears frequently in both literary and everyday contexts to describe processes of development, learning, or natural progression.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+6E10 |
| 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 | 渐 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 渐 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0xB8 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x6E10 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00006E10 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u6e10 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 27485A |
| kCangjie | EKQL |
| kCantonese | zim6 |
| kDefinition | gradually |
| kEACC | 27485A |
| kFourCornerCode | 3212 |
| kGB0 | 2905 |
| kHanYu | 31645.030 |
| kHanyuPinlu | jiàn(459) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 31645.030 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0633.371 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3D25 |
| kTGH | 2013:2417 |
| kKangXi | 0633.371 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 3362 |
| kMandarin | jiàn |
| kPhonetic | 21* |
| kRSUnicode | 85.8 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 372.18 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 165.180:jiàn |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "漸" U+6F38 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0547.070:jiān 0555.050:jiàn |