U+6EC4 "滄" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
滄
U+6EC4 "滄" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that traditionally means "cold," "chilly," or refers to the deep blue or green color of water, often evoking the vastness and chill of the ocean. It is composed of the water radical on the left and the phonetic component "倉" on the right, and it appears in classical literature and poetry to describe the cold, vast seas or rivers, such as in the term "滄海" (cāng hǎi), meaning "the blue sea" or "the vast ocean." This character is used in both Traditional Chinese and Japanese Kanji, where it carries similar meanings related to coldness and expansive bodies of water.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+6EC4 |
| 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 | 滄 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 滄 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0xBB 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x6EC4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00006EC4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u6ec4 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B7C9 |
| kCCCII | 214848 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-646F |
| kCNS1992 | 1-646F |
| kCangjie | EOIR |
| kCantonese | cong1 |
| kCihaiT | 820.401 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1049.080 |
| kDefinition | blue, dark green; cold |
| kEACC | 214848 |
| kFanqie | 七岡 初亮 |
| kFourCornerCode | 3816.7 |
| kGB1 | 1855 |
| kGSR | 0703d |
| kHangul | 창:0N |
| kHanYu | 31703.010 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 31703.010:cāng |
| kHKGlyph | 2277 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1049.080 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 31703.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0641.290 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-3257 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B7C9 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-5E6B |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-ECEA |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-7367 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-646F |
| kIRG_VSource | V2-8D54 |
| kJapanese | ソウ ショウ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | SAMUI |
| kJapaneseOn | SOU |
| kJis0 | 6275 |
| kKangXi | 0641.290 |
| kKorean | CHANG |
| kMandarin | cāng |
| kMatthews | 6711 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3459a |
| kMojiJoho | MJ015735 |
| kMorohashi | 18007 |
| kNelson | 2647 |
| kPhonetic | 254 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+5480+85.3.10 |
| kRSUnicode | 85.10 |
| kSBGY | 180.09 426.19 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "沧" U+6CA7 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 377.15 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | cāng粵cong1 |
| kSpoofingVariant | U+51D4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 3318 |
| kTang | *tsɑng |
| kTotalStrokes | 13 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kXerox | 261:172 |
| kXHC1983 | 0105.011:cāng |