U+6EDF "滟" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+6EDF "滟" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means the shimmering or rippling appearance of water, often used in classical poetry and literary contexts to describe the sparkling reflection of light on a body of water. It is a component of the compound word "滟滪" which refers to a famous and dangerous whirlpool in the Yangtze River known as Yanyu, historically a perilous navigation hazard for ships. The character itself is composed of the radical for water on the left and a phonetic component on the right, and it falls under the category of traditional Chinese characters within the Unicode standard.

General Properties

Code Point	U+6EDF
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	滟
HTML Hex Encoding	滟
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE6 0xBB 0x9F
UTF-16 Encoding	0x6EDF
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00006EDF
C/C++/Java Escape	\u6edf

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

kCCCII	285029
kCangjie	EQJU
kCantonese	jim6
kDefinition	overflowing, billowing; wavy
kEACC	285029
kFourCornerCode	3711
kGB0	6857
kHanYu	31692.010
kIICore	CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	31692.010
kIRGKangXi	0643.241
kIRG_GSource	G0-6459
kTGH	2013:5566
kKangXi	0643.241
kMainlandTelegraph	3495
kMandarin	yàn
kRSUnicode	85.10
kSMSZD2003Index	379.20
kTGHZ2013	424.160:yàn
kTotalStrokes	13
kTraditionalVariant	"灧" U+7067 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	1331.130:yàn