U+6EAF "溯" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
溯
U+6EAF "溯" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to go upstream" or "to trace back to a source," often used in classical and modern Chinese to describe the act of moving against a current or investigating origins. Composed of the water radical on the left and a phonetic component on the right, it appears in terms like "追溯" (zhuīsù), meaning "to trace back," and "溯流" (sùliú), meaning "to go against the stream." This character encapsulates both physical navigation and metaphorical journeys of historical or logical inquiry, reflecting its deep roots in East Asian written culture.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+6EAF |
| 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 | 溯 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 溯 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0xBA 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x6EAF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00006EAF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u6eaf |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B7B9 |
| kCCCII | 21483B |
| kCNS1986 | 1-645F |
| kCNS1992 | 1-645F |
| kCangjie | ETUB |
| kCantonese | sou3 |
| kCihaiT | 822.302 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1048.050 |
| kDefinition | go upstream, go against current; formerly |
| kEACC | 21483B |
| kFanqie | 桑故 |
| kFenn | 661G |
| kFennIndex | 470.09 472.07 |
| kFourCornerCode | 3712.0 |
| kGB0 | 4361 |
| kGB1 | 4361 |
| kHangul | 소:0N |
| kHanYu | 31708.010 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 31708.010:sù,shuò |
| kHKGlyph | 2260 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1048.050 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 31708.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0640.300 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4B5D |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B7B9 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-5E6A |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E3AA |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-613D |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-645F |
| kJapanese | ソ サク さかのぼる |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:3017 |
| kJapaneseKun | SAKANOBORU |
| kJapaneseOn | SO |
| kJis0 | 6274 |
| kKangXi | 0640.300 |
| kKorean | SO SAK |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 3307 |
| kMandarin | sù |
| kMatthews | 5495 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2840d |
| kMojiJoho | MJ015709 |
| kMorohashi | 17975 |
| kNelson | 2653 |
| kPhonetic | 1231 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+5479+85.3.10 |
| kRSUnicode | 85.10 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+3D11 U+9061<kMeyerWempe |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 377.03 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | sù粵sou3 |
| kSpecializedSemanticVariant | U+3D11<kFenn |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 3307 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 351.010:sù |
| kTotalStrokes | 13 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kXerox | 262:314 |
| kXHC1983 | 1095.040:sù |