U+8C3F "谿" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
谿
U+8C3F "谿" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily denotes a mountain stream or a valley with a watercourse, often used in classical and literary contexts to evoke a natural, rugged landscape. It is composed of elements suggesting a valley and flowing water, and it appears in historical texts, poetry, and place names, particularly in East Asian cultures. This character is distinct from the more common "溪" (xī) for stream, as "谿" carries an additional connotation of a deep, winding ravine or gorge. In modern usage, it remains a part of the standard CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) character set, though it is less frequently employed in everyday writing compared to its simpler variant.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8C3F |
| 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 | 谿 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 谿 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xB0 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8C3F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008C3F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8c3f |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C1C6 |
| kCCCII | 215952 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7551 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7551 |
| kCangjie | BKCOR |
| kCantonese | kai1 |
| kCihaiT | 1260.301 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1653.200 |
| kDefinition | valley, gorge; mountain stream |
| kEACC | 215952 |
| kFanqie | 苦奚 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2846.8 |
| kGSR | 0876q |
| kHangul | 계:0N |
| kHanYu | 63905.080 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 63905.080:xī,jī |
| kHKGlyph | 3872 |
| kIICore | ATJHKP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1653.200 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 63905.080 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1190.210 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-4D44 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C1C6 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-6C30 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-D3CE |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-4D2C |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7551 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-676C |
| kJapanese | ケイ ゲイ たにがわ たに |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:7959 |
| kJapaneseKun | TANIGAWA |
| kJapaneseOn | KEI KAI |
| kJis0 | 7616 |
| kKangXi | 1190.210 |
| kKarlgren | 126 |
| kKorean | KYEY |
| kMandarin | xī |
| kMatthews | 511 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1011b |
| kMojiJoho | MJ024878 MJ024878:E0101 MJ024879:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 36219 36219:E0101 |
| kNelson | 4464 |
| kPhonetic | 427 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+6737+150.7.10 |
| kRSUnicode | 150.10 |
| kSBGY | 091.34 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+5D60<kMeyerWempe |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 658.14 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 6254 |
| kTang | *kei |
| kTGHZ2013 | 393.170:xī |
| kTotalStrokes | 17 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | khê |
| kXerox | 316:061 |
| kXHC1983 | 1229.100:xī |