U+6E9D "溝" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
溝
U+6E9D "溝" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) logograph that primarily means "ditch," "gutter," "channel," or "ravine," and is composed of the water radical on the left and a phonetic component on the right. In modern usage, it appears in common words across East Asian languages, such as the Japanese term "溝" (mizo) for a trench or groove and the Chinese term "溝通" (gōutōng) meaning "to communicate," where it metaphorically bridges the gap between two points. Historically, this character has been used in classical texts to describe natural waterways or man-made drainage systems, reflecting its fundamental association with the flow and containment of water.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+6E9D |
| 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 | 溝 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 溝 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0xBA 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x6E9D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00006E9D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u6e9d |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B7BE |
| kCCCII | 21483D |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6464 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6464 |
| kCangjie | ETTB |
| kCantonese | kau1 |
| kCihaiT | 819.401 |
| kCowles | 1570 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1046.220 |
| kDefinition | ditch, drain, narrow waterway |
| kEACC | 21483D |
| kFanqie | 古侯 |
| kFenn | 601B |
| kFennIndex | 255.07 |
| kFourCornerCode | 3514.7 |
| kGB1 | 2521 |
| kGradeLevel | 4 |
| kGSR | 0109h |
| kHangul | 구:0N |
| kHanYu | 31692.060 |
| kHanyuPinlu | gōu(136) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 31692.060:gōu,gǎng,kòu |
| kHKGlyph | 2266 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1046.220 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 31692.060 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0639.340 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-3935 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B7BE |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3942 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-D0FB |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-4F35 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6464 |
| kJapanese | コウ みぞ |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | MIZO |
| kJapaneseOn | KOU |
| kJis0 | 2534 |
| kKangXi | 0639.340 |
| kKarlgren | 418 |
| kKorean | KWU |
| kLau | 861 1667 |
| kMandarin | gōu |
| kMatthews | 3429 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1064 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ015687 MJ015687:E0102 MJ015686:E0103 |
| kMorohashi | 17944:E0103 |
| kNelson | 2657 |
| kPhonetic | 589 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2004+85.3.10 V+7681+85.3.10 |
| kRSUnicode | 85.10 |
| kSBGY | 214.44 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "沟" U+6C9F CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 376.17 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | gōu粵gau1,kau1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 3297 |
| kTang | gou |
| kTotalStrokes | 13 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kXerox | 253:243 |
| kXHC1983 | 0390.011:gōu |