U+78CE "磎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

磎

U+78CE "磎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a logographic character used in the Chinese writing system, primarily in Classical Chinese and historical texts, where it represents the concept of a mountain stream or gorge, often depicted as a valley or ravine formed by water erosion. Its structure combines the radical for stone "石" with a phonetic component that suggests the sound or meaning of a narrow, rocky watercourse. This character is relatively uncommon in modern standard Chinese, but it appears in literary or poetic contexts to evoke natural landscapes, and it also exists in Japanese kanji with similar meanings. The glyph's composition and usage reflect the traditional method of forming Chinese characters through semantic-phonetic compounding, emphasizing the interplay between physical elements and abstract geographical features.

General Properties

Code Point	U+78CE
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	磎
HTML Hex Encoding	磎
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0xA3 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding	0x78CE
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000078CE
C/C++/Java Escape	\u78ce

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	E6C5
kCCCII	22655C
kCNS1986	2-524D
kCNS1992	2-524D
kCangjie	MRBVK
kCantonese	kai1
kDaeJaweon	1252.040
kDefinition	mountain stream, creek
kFanqie	苦奚
kFourCornerCode	1263.5
kGB5	5649
kHangul	계:0N
kHanYu	42448.060
kHanyuPinyin	42448.060:qī
kIICore	AKP
kIRGDaeJaweon	1252.040
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	42448.060
kIRGKangXi	0834.310
kIRG_GSource	G5-5851
kIRG_HSource	HB2-E6C5
kIRG_JSource	J14-7252
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-D3C7
kIRG_KSource	K0-4D25
kIRG_TSource	T2-524D
kJapanese	ケイ
kKoreanName	2015
kJIS0213	2,82,50
kJapaneseKun	TANI
kJapaneseOn	KEI
kJis1	4808
kKangXi	0834.310
kKorean	KYEY
kMandarin	xī
kMojiJoho	MJ018626
kMorohashi	24399
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+14896+112.5.10
kRSUnicode	112.10
kSBGY	091.37
kTotalStrokes	15
kUnihanCore2020	HKMPT
kXHC1983	1229.080:xī