U+96FB "電" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
電
U+96FB "電" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents the concept of electricity or lightning, originally derived from a pictogram of a cloud with rain and a bolt of lightning. This character is used across multiple East Asian languages, including as the kanji for "electricity" in Japanese and the hanja for "lightning" or "electricity" in Korean. In modern contexts, it appears in words like "telephone" (電話) and "electric car" (電車), highlighting its fundamental role in technological and everyday vocabulary throughout the region.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+96FB |
| 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 | 電 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 電 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0x9B 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x96FB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000096FB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u96fb |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B971 |
| kCCCII | 215F55 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6759 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6759 |
| kCangjie | MBWU |
| kCantonese | din6 |
| kCihaiT | 1450.502 |
| kCowles | 4163 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1882.080 |
| kDefinition | electricity, electric; lightning |
| kEACC | 215F55 |
| kFanqie | 堂練 |
| kFenn | 813A |
| kFennIndex | 521.03 |
| kFourCornerCode | 1071.6 |
| kGB1 | 2171 |
| kGradeLevel | 2 |
| kGSR | 0385m |
| kHangul | 전:0E |
| kHanYu | 64060.010 |
| kHanyuPinlu | diàn(1775) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 64060.010:diàn |
| kHKGlyph | 4431 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1882.080 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 64060.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1373.050 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-3567 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B971 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4545 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E7FD |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6F33 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6759 |
| kIRG_VSource | V2-9130 |
| kJapanese | デン テン いなずま |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kJapaneseKun | INAZUMA |
| kJapaneseOn | DEN TEN |
| kJis0 | 3737 |
| kKangXi | 1373.050 |
| kKorean | CEN |
| kLau | 550 |
| kMandarin | diàn |
| kMatthews | 6358 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3084 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ027796 |
| kMorohashi | 42253 |
| kNelson | 5050 |
| kPhonetic | 1126 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+3135+173.8.5 |
| kRSUnicode | 173.5 |
| kSBGY | 407.26 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "电" U+7535 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 760.07 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | diàn粵din6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 7193 |
| kTang | *dhèn |
| kTotalStrokes | 13 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kXerox | 242:052 |
| kXHC1983 | 0243.061:diàn |