U+6E23 "渣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
渣
U+6E23 "渣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily meaning "dregs," "residue," or "sediment," often used to describe the solid remains left after extracting liquid, such as in tea leaves or coffee grounds. It also carries a figurative meaning in modern Chinese slang, referring to a person who is despicable, unreliable, or morally corrupt, similar to the English term "scum." The character combines the water radical (氵) on the left, hinting at its original association with liquids, with the phonetic component "查" on the right. In traditional and simplified Chinese, it is written identically as 渣, and it appears across various contexts from cooking and industrial processes to informal criticism of character.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+6E23 |
| 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 | 渣 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 渣 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0xB8 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x6E23 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00006E23 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u6e23 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B4ED |
| kCCCII | 214827 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6034 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6034 |
| kCangjie | EDAM |
| kCantonese | zaa1 |
| kCihaiT | 812.203 |
| kCowles | 59 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1041.010 |
| kDefinition | refuse, dregs, lees, sediment |
| kEACC | 214827 |
| kFanqie | 側加 |
| kFenn | 793E |
| kFennIndex | 6.02 |
| kFourCornerCode | 3411.6 |
| kGB0 | 5292 |
| kGB1 | 5292 |
| kGradeLevel | 6 |
| kHangul | 사:0N |
| kHanYu | 31670.050 |
| kHanyuPinlu | zhā(33) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 31670.050:zhā |
| kHKGlyph | 2241 |
| kIICore | AGTHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1041.010 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 31670.050 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0634.030 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-547C |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B4ED |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-5E56 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E0E5 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5E60 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6034 |
| kJapanese | サ シャ ジャ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:2753 |
| kJapaneseKun | ORI KASU |
| kJapaneseOn | SA SHA |
| kJis0 | 6254 |
| kKangXi | 0634.030 |
| kKorean | SA |
| kLau | 1268 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 3257 |
| kMandarin | zhā |
| kMatthews | 69 |
| kMeyerWempe | 45 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ015549 MJ015549:E0103 MJ015550:E0104 |
| kMorohashi | 17767 17767:E0103 |
| kNelson | 2612 |
| kPhonetic | 13 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+5459+85.3.9 V+7994+85.3.9 V+13558+85.3.9 |
| kRSUnicode | 85.9 |
| kSBGY | 168.24 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 373.05 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | zhā粵zaa1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 3257 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 462.030:zhā |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kXerox | 261:171 |
| kXHC1983 | 1447.040:zhā |