U+8015 "耕" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8015 "耕" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that primarily means "to plow" or "to till," and it represents the action of cultivating soil for agriculture, often symbolizing hard work and dedication in farming. Its structure combines the radical for "plow" or "farm implement" on the left side, which relates to tools used in cultivation, and a phonetic component on the right that hints at its pronunciation, which is "geng" in Mandarin. This character appears frequently in classical and modern Chinese texts, and it is also used in Japanese, where it carries similar meanings and is read as "kō" in on'yomi or "tagayasu" in kun'yomi. Overall, U+8015 encapsulates a fundamental concept tied to human civilization's agricultural roots and the enduring value of labor.

General Properties

Code Point U+8015
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 耕
HTML Hex Encoding 耕
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0x80 0x95
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8015
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008015
C/C++/Java Escape \u8015

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 AFD1
kCCCII 215264
kCNS1986 1-5755
kCNS1992 1-5755
kCangjie QDTT
kCantonese gaang1
kCihaiT 1080.502
kCowles 1480 1553
kDaeJaweon 1410.230
kDefinition plow, cultivate
kEACC 215264
kFanqie 古莖
kFenn 415D
kFennIndex 79.08 248.03
kFourCornerCode 5590.0
kGB0 2491
kGB1 2491
kGradeLevel 2
kGSR 0808a
kHangul 경:0E
kHanYu 42770.100
kHanyuPinlu gēng(55)
kHanyuPinyin 42770.100:gēng
kHKGlyph 3237
kIICore AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon 1410.230
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 42770.100
kIRGKangXi 0962.230
kIRG_GSource G0-387B
kIRG_HSource HB1-AFD1
kIRG_JSource J0-394C
kIRG_KPSource KP0-CFCD
kIRG_KSource K0-4C69
kIRG_TSource T1-5755
kIRG_VSource V1-6358
kJapanese コウ たがやす
kJoyoKanji 2010
kKoreanEducationHanja 2007
kTGH 2013:1766
kJapaneseKun TAGAYASU
kJapaneseOn KOU
kJis0 2544
kKangXi 0962.230
kKorean KYENG
kLau 813
kMainlandTelegraph 5087
kMandarin gēng
kMatthews 3343
kMeyerWempe 979
kMojiJoho MJ020773 MJ020773:E0102 MJ020772:E0103
kMorohashi 28907' 28907':E0102 28907:E0103
kNelson 3695
kPhonetic 103
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+2014+127.6.4 V+13770+127.6.4
kRSUnicode 127.4
kSBGY 187.39
kSemanticVariant U+754A<kLau,kMatthews U+7C21<kLau
kSMSZD2003Index 543.08
kSMSZD2003Readings gēng粵gaang1
kSpecializedSemanticVariant U+754A<kFenn
kTaiwanTelegraph 5087
kTang *gɛng
kTGHZ2013 112.110:gēng
kTotalStrokes 10
kUnihanCore2020 GHJKMPT
kVietnamese canh
kXerox 247:263
kXHC1983 0377.100:gēng