U+9616 "阖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
阖
U+9616 "阖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character traditionally meaning "to close" or "to shut," particularly referring to doors or gates, and it also conveys the sense of "whole" or "entire" in literary contexts. It is composed of the radical for "door" (门) on the outside, suggesting enclosure, and a phonetic component inside. This character appears in Classical Chinese texts, often in phrases like "阖家" meaning "the whole family," and it has historical usage in terms related to closing or covering, such as in descriptions of nightfall or sealed spaces.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9616 |
| 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 | 阖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 阖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0x98 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9616 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009616 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9616 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 275E66 |
| kCangjie | LSGIT |
| kCantonese | hap6 |
| kDefinition | close; whole, entire; all; leaf |
| kEACC | 515E5D |
| kFourCornerCode | 3710 |
| kGB0 | 6756 |
| kHanYu | 74312.020 |
| kIICore | CG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74312.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1343.121 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-6358 |
| kTGH | 2013:5552 |
| kKangXi | 1343.121 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 7066 |
| kMandarin | hé |
| kPhonetic | 508* |
| kRSUnicode | 169'.10 |
| kSpecializedSemanticVariant | U+2CBA4<sGZJZD1989:T |
| kTGHZ2013 | 135.030:hé |
| kTotalStrokes | 13 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "闔" U+95D4 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0449.030:hé |