U+6E58 "湘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
湘
U+6E58 "湘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily refers to the Xiang River, a major tributary of the Yangtze River in Hunan Province, China, and is also used as an abbreviation for Hunan Province itself. It carries cultural significance in classical poetry and geographical contexts, often evoking imagery of the region's landscapes and history, such as the connection to the mythical Xiang River goddesses. In modern usage, the character appears in names of places, companies, and products, especially those linked to Hunan, and is written with a left water radical (氵) suggesting its riverine meaning, with a total of 12 strokes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+6E58 |
| 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 | 湘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 湘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0xB9 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x6E58 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00006E58 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u6e58 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B4F0 |
| kCCCII | 214826 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6037 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6037 |
| kCangjie | EDBU |
| kCantonese | soeng1 |
| kCihaiT | 815.501 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1044.090 |
| kDefinition | alternate name for Hunan |
| kEACC | 214826 |
| kFanqie | 息良 |
| kFourCornerCode | 3610.0 |
| kGB0 | 4770 |
| kGB1 | 4770 |
| kGSR | 0731e |
| kHangul | 상:0N |
| kHanYu | 31670.040 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 31670.040:xiāng |
| kHKGlyph | 2243 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1044.090 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 31670.040 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0637.110 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4F66 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B4F0 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3E45 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E1D3 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5F4F |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6037 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-5C7E |
| kJapanese | ショウ ソウ |
| kJinmeiyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:2752 |
| kJapaneseKun | NIRU |
| kJapaneseOn | SHOU SOU |
| kJis0 | 3037 |
| kKangXi | 0637.110 |
| kKorean | SANG |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 3276 |
| kMandarin | xiāng |
| kMatthews | 2565 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2577d |
| kMojiJoho | MJ015612 |
| kMorohashi | 17842 |
| kPhonetic | 1165 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2477+85.3.9 |
| kRSUnicode | 85.9 |
| kSBGY | 175.15 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 374.15 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | xiāng粵soeng1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 3276 |
| kTang | *siɑng |
| kTGHZ2013 | 400.150:xiāng |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | tương |
| kXerox | 254:274 |
| kXHC1983 | 1255.010:xiāng |