U+6EBA "溺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

溺

U+6EBA "溺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to drown" or "to be submerged in water," and it also carries connotations of excessive indulgence or addiction, such as in the term "溺爱" meaning "to spoil" or "to dote on someone too much." Composed of the water radical "氵" on the left and the phonetic component "弱" on the right, it is used in both modern and classical Chinese texts, appearing in contexts ranging from literal descriptions of drowning to figurative expressions of overwhelming passion or harmful habits. This character is encoded in the Unicode Standard under the CJK Unified Ideographs block, encompassing a range of East Asian scripts including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, where its readings vary by language, such as "nì" in Mandarin, "溺" (deki) in Japanese, and "익" (ik) in Korean.

General Properties

Code Point	U+6EBA
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	溺
HTML Hex Encoding	溺
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE6 0xBA 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding	0x6EBA
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00006EBA
C/C++/Java Escape	\u6eba

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Ideographic
East Asian Width	Wide
Script	Han
Script Extensions	Han
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	OLetter
Ideographic	Yes
Unified Ideograph	Yes

Unihan Properties

kBigFive	B7C4
kCCCII	21483E
kCNS1986	1-646A
kCNS1992	1-646A
kCangjie	ENMM
kCantonese	nik6
kCihaiT	818.601
kCowles	2887
kDaeJaweon	1048.170
kDefinition	drown; submerge in water; indulge
kEACC	2D3B52
kFanqie	而灼奴歷
kFenn	245F
kFennIndex	360.10 361.08
kFourCornerCode	3712.7
kGB0	3671
kGB1	3671
kGradeLevel	6
kGSR	1123d
kHangul	닉:0N 익:0
kHanYu	31710.070
kHanyuPinyin	31710.070:ruò,nì,niào
kHKGlyph	2272
kIICore	AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	1048.170
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	31710.070
kIRGKangXi	0641.110
kIRG_GSource	G0-4467
kIRG_HSource	HB1-B7C4
kIRG_JSource	J0-452E
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-D5A3
kIRG_KSource	K0-527C
kIRG_TSource	T1-646A
kIRG_VSource	V2-8D53
kJapanese	デキニョウジャクジョウダクニョクニャクおぼれる
kJoyoKanji	2010
kKoreanName	2015
kTGH	2013:3020
kJapaneseKun	OBORERU IBARI
kJapaneseOn	DEKI JOU NYOU
kJis0	3714
kKangXi	0641.110
kKorean	NIK NYO
kLau	2375 2392
kMainlandTelegraph	3312
kMandarin	nì
kMatthews	4652
kMeyerWempe	2079
kMojiJoho	MJ015723 MJ015724:E0102 MJ015723:E0103
kMorohashi	17990 17990:E0103
kNelson	2652
kPhonetic	1524
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+3112+85.3.10
kRSUnicode	85.10
kSBGY	502.20 523.09
kSemanticVariant	U+6C3C<kMatthews
kSMSZD2003Index	377.10
kSMSZD2003Readings	nì粵nik1,nik6 niào粵niu6
kSpecializedSemanticVariant	U+5C3F<kFenn
kTaiwanTelegraph	3312
kTang	nek
kTGHZ2013	265.190:nì
kTotalStrokes	13
kUnihanCore2020	GHJKMPT
kXerox	260:375
kXHC1983	0829.070:nì 0833.071:niào