U+975B "靛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

靛

U+975B "靛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character representing the color indigo or the indigo plant from which the dye is derived. It is composed of the radical for "green" or "blue" (青) on the left and the phonetic component "定" on the right, reflecting its semantic association with deep blue hues and its pronunciation in Mandarin as "diàn." Historically, this character has been used in classical Chinese texts to describe the dye produced from plants like Indigofera, and in modern usage it appears in terms for indigo-colored objects, such as 靛蓝 (diànlán) for the color indigo itself. As part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block, it facilitates written communication across Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages, where it carries similar meanings related to deep blue tones.

General Properties

Code Point	U+975B
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	靛
HTML Hex Encoding	靛
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0x9D 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding	0x975B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000975B
C/C++/Java Escape	\u975b

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	C051
kCCCII	215F72
kCNS1986	1-727A
kCNS1992	1-727A
kCangjie	QBJMO
kCantonese	din6
kCihaiT	1463.301
kCowles	4166
kDaeJaweon	1893.120
kDefinition	indigo; any blue dye
kEACC	4B5F72
kFanqie	堂練
kFenn	138G
kFennIndex	522.07
kFourCornerCode	5328.1
kGB0	2169
kGB1	2169
kHangul	전:1N
kHanYu	64049.020
kHanyuPinyin	64049.020:diàn
kHKGlyph	4459
kIICore	AGTHM
kIRGDaeJaweon	1893.120
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	64049.020
kIRGKangXi	1382.020
kIRG_GSource	G0-3565
kIRG_HSource	HB1-C051
kIRG_JSource	J14-7B7E
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-84EB
kIRG_KSource	K1-6C36
kIRG_TSource	T1-727A
kJapanese	テンデンあいあいぞめ
kKoreanName	2015
kTGH	2013:6031
kJIS0213	2,91,94
kJapaneseKun	AI
kJapaneseOn	TEN DEN
kJis1	7122
kKangXi	1382.020
kKorean	CEN
kMainlandTelegraph	7233
kMandarin	diàn
kMatthews	6353
kMeyerWempe	3088
kMojiJoho	MJ027911 MJ027911:E0101 MJ027912:E0102
kMorohashi	42577 42577:E0101
kNelson	5078
kPhonetic	1342
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+18915+174.8.8
kRSUnicode	174.8
kSMSZD2003Index	763.08
kSMSZD2003Readings	diàn粵din6
kTaiwanTelegraph	7233
kTGHZ2013	074.190:diàn
kTotalStrokes	16
kUnihanCore2020	GHMT
kXerox	262:323
kXHC1983	0242.030:diàn