U+6E56 "湖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
湖
U+6E56 "湖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character meaning "lake," composed of the water radical "氵" on the left and the phonetic component "胡" on the right, reflecting its semantic and phonetic structure. It is widely used in East Asian languages, including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, to denote a body of inland freshwater, and appears in common terms such as "西湖" (West Lake) and "湖泊" (lake). This character belongs to the CJK Unified Ideographs block, which encompasses a vast set of shared characters from Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese writing systems, standardized for digital text encoding.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+6E56 |
| 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 | 湖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 湖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0xB9 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x6E56 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00006E56 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u6e56 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B4F2 |
| kCCCII | 214823 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6039 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6039 |
| kCangjie | EJRB |
| kCantonese | wu4 |
| kCihaiT | 815.204 |
| kCowles | 3121 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1044.050 |
| kDefinition | a lake; Hubei, Hunan; bluish-green |
| kEACC | 214823 |
| kFanqie | 戶吳 |
| kFenn | 705B |
| kFennIndex | 198.02 |
| kFourCornerCode | 3712.0 |
| kGB0 | 2694 |
| kGB1 | 2694 |
| kGradeLevel | 2 |
| kGSR | 0049j' |
| kHangul | 호:0E |
| kHanYu | 31669.030 |
| kHanyuPinlu | hú(248) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 31669.030:hú |
| kHKGlyph | 2245 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1044.050 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 31669.030 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0637.040 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3A7E |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B4F2 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3850 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F4A4 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-7B49 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6039 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-5C7D |
| kJapanese | コ ゴ みずうみ |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:2751 |
| kJapaneseKun | MIZUUMI |
| kJapaneseOn | KO |
| kJis0 | 2448 |
| kKangXi | 0637.040 |
| kKarlgren | 91 |
| kKorean | HO |
| kLau | 3273 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 3275 |
| kMandarin | hú |
| kMatthews | 2168 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2165 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ015610 |
| kMorohashi | 17836 |
| kNelson | 2628 |
| kPhonetic | 1460 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1924+85.3.9 |
| kRSUnicode | 85.9 |
| kSBGY | 081.14 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 374.14 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | hú粵wu4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 3275 |
| kTang | *ho |
| kTGHZ2013 | 140.210:hú |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | hồ |
| kXerox | 245:065 |
| kXHC1983 | 0473.010:hú |