U+786F "硯" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
硯
U+786F "硯" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character commonly known as "inkstone," a stone slab used in East Asian calligraphy for grinding ink sticks to produce liquid ink for brush writing. This character is composed of the radical for "stone" (石) on the left and a phonetic component on the right, reflecting both its material and function. In Chinese culture, the inkstone is one of the Four Treasures of the Study, alongside the brush, ink stick, and paper, and it holds deep historical and artistic significance as a key tool for scholars and artists.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+786F |
| 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 | 硯 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 硯 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0xA1 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x786F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000786F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u786f |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B578 |
| kCCCII | 214E3B |
| kCNS1986 | 1-607E |
| kCNS1992 | 1-607E |
| kCangjie | MRBUU |
| kCantonese | jin6 |
| kCihaiT | 967.502 |
| kCowles | 1363 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1247.060 |
| kDefinition | inkstone |
| kEACC | 214E3B |
| kFanqie | 吾甸 |
| kFenn | 865B |
| kFennIndex | 626.13 |
| kFourCornerCode | 1661.0 |
| kGB1 | 4966 |
| kHangul | 연:0N |
| kHanYu | 42433.050 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 42433.050:yàn |
| kHKGlyph | 2820 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1247.060 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42433.050 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0831.080 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-5162 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B578 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3827 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F8F4 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-665B |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-607E |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-6068 |
| kJapanese | ケン ゲン すずり |
| kJinmeiyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | SUZURI |
| kJapaneseOn | KEN GEN |
| kJis0 | 2407 |
| kKangXi | 0831.080 |
| kKarlgren | 368 |
| kKorean | YEN |
| kLau | 3476 |
| kMandarin | yàn |
| kMatthews | 7401 |
| kMeyerWempe | 899 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ018525 |
| kMorohashi | 24233 |
| kNelson | 3190 |
| kPhonetic | 621 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1883+112.5.7 C+1883+147.7.5 |
| kRSUnicode | 112.7 |
| kSBGY | 408.13 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "砚" U+781A CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 471.09 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | yàn粵jin6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 4291 |
| kTang | ngèn |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | nghẽn nghiên nghiền nghiễn |
| kXerox | 260:304 |