U+91E6 "釦" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
釦
U+91E6 "釦" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character composed of the metal radical on the left and the phonetic component "口" on the right. In traditional Chinese and Japanese usage, it primarily means a button or a buckle, often referring to a fastener on clothing made of metal, though in modern Japanese it is the standard character for "button" as used on shirts and jackets. Its pronunciation varies by language, being read as "kòu" in Mandarin Chinese with the tonal indication of the character for "knock" or "button," and as "botan" or "kō" in Japanese, reflecting its historical and functional role in describing small, circular fasteners.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+91E6 |
| 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 | 釦 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 釦 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0x87 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x91E6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000091E6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u91e6 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B3A7 |
| kCCCII | 215D44 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5D6B |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5D6B |
| kCangjie | CR |
| kCantonese | kau3 |
| kCihaiT | 1371.402 |
| kCowles | 1934 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1800.030 |
| kDefinition | button; buckle, clasp; engrave |
| kEACC | 215D44 |
| kFanqie | 苦后 |
| kFenn | 694E |
| kFennIndex | 257.05 |
| kFourCornerCode | 8610.0 |
| kGSR | 0110f |
| kHangul | 구:1N |
| kHanYu | 64171.090 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 64171.090:kòu |
| kHKGlyph | 4234 |
| kIICore | ATHM |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1800.030 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 64171.090 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1296.160 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-5033 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B3A7 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4B55 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-7FC8 |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-5A6B |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5D6B |
| kJapanese | コウ ク ぼたん |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | BOTAN |
| kJapaneseOn | KOU KU |
| kJis0 | 4353 |
| kKangXi | 1296.160 |
| kKarlgren | 419 |
| kKorean | KWU |
| kMandarin | kòu |
| kMatthews | 3439 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1082c |
| kMojiJoho | MJ026620 |
| kMorohashi | 40175 |
| kNelson | 4819 |
| kPhonetic | 445 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+3715+30.3.8 C+3715+167.8.3 |
| kRSUnicode | 167.3 |
| kSBGY | 327.35 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "𬬪" U+2CB2A CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 717.06 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | kòu粵kau3 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 6863 |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJMT |
| kXerox | 275:264 |
| kXHC1983 | 0652.041:kòu |