U+6E17 "渗" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+6E17 "渗" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character commonly used in both Simplified and Traditional Chinese, as well as in Japanese and Korean, to represent the concept of "seep," "leak," or "permeate." It is composed of the radical for water (氵) on the left side, indicating its association with liquids, and the phonetic component 参 (cān or shēn) on the right, which provides a clue to its pronunciation. This character appears in words related to the gradual or slow movement of a substance through a porous material, such as in water seeping into soil or a liquid leaking through a container. Its usage spans technical contexts, like chemistry and engineering, as well as everyday descriptions of physical processes.

General Properties

Code Point	U+6E17
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	渗
HTML Hex Encoding	渗
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE6 0xB8 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding	0x6E17
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00006E17
C/C++/Java Escape	\u6e17

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

kCCCII	274864
kCNS1986	E-3727
kCNS1992	3-3727
kCangjie	EIKH
kCantonese	sam3
kDefinition	soak through, infiltrate
kEACC	274864
kFourCornerCode	3312
kGB0	4188
kHangul	삼:0
kHanYu	31665.050
kHanyuPinlu	shèn(34)
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	31665.050
kIRGKangXi	0633.371
kIRG_GSource	G0-4978
kIRG_JSource	J4-6E5D
kIRG_KSource	K0-5F36
kIRG_TSource	T3-3727
kJapanese	シン ソン しみる にじむ
kTGH	2013:2437
kJIS0213	2,78,61
kJapaneseKun	SHIMIRU
kJapaneseOn	SHIN
kKangXi	0633.371
kKorean	CHAM
kMainlandTelegraph	3334
kMandarin	shèn
kMojiJoho	MJ015535
kPhonetic	23*
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+14150+85.3.8
kRSUnicode	85.8
kSMSZD2003Index	372.11
kTGHZ2013	331.190:shèn
kTotalStrokes	11
kTraditionalVariant	"滲" U+6EF2 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	GK
kXHC1983	1022.080:shèn