U+9769 "革" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
革
U+9769 "革" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "leather," "hide," or "skin," and by extension can also signify "to reform" or "to change." It is composed of a pictographic radical representing an animal hide stretched on a frame, and it serves as a common component in other Chinese characters where it often conveys the idea of leather or transformation. This character is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, indicating its shared use across these East Asian writing systems, and it appears in words such as "革命" (revolution) and "皮革" (leather).
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9769 |
| 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 | 革 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 革 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0x9D 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9769 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009769 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9769 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | ADB2 |
| kCCCII | 215F7A |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5373 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5373 |
| kCangjie | TLJ |
| kCantonese | gaak3 |
| kCihaiT | 1466.101 |
| kCowles | 1449 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1899.150 |
| kDefinition | leather, animal hides; Kangxi radical 177; hexagram ䷰ |
| kEACC | 215F7A |
| kFanqie | 古核 |
| kFenn | 105D |
| kFennIndex | 251.02 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4450.6 |
| kGB0 | 2479 |
| kGB1 | 2479 |
| kGradeLevel | 5 |
| kGSR | 0931a |
| kHangul | 혁:0E |
| kHanYu | 74325.010 |
| kHanyuPinlu | gé(2148) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 74325.010:gé,jí |
| kHDZRadBreak | ⾰[U+2FB0]:74325.010 |
| kHKGlyph | 4467 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1899.150 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74325.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1385.010 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-386F |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-ADB2 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3357 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F3B9 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-7A54 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5373 |
| kJapanese | カク キョク かわ あらたまる あらためる |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:1403 |
| kJapaneseKun | KAWA ARATAMARU ARATAMERU |
| kJapaneseOn | KAKU KYOKU |
| kJis0 | 1955 |
| kKangXi | 1385.010 |
| kKarlgren | 412 |
| kKorean | HYEK KUK |
| kLau | 796 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 7245 |
| kMandarin | gé |
| kMatthews | 3314 |
| kMeyerWempe | 957 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ027936 MJ027936:E0101 MJ059006:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 42710 42710:E0101 |
| kNelson | 5088 |
| kPhonetic | 543 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1461+177.9.0 |
| kRSUnicode | 177.0 |
| kSBGY | 515.18 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 765.08 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | gé粵gaak3 jí粵gik1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 7245 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 110.090:gé |
| kTotalStrokes | 9 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kXerox | 244:353 |
| kXHC1983 | 0370.110:gé 0526.070:jí |