U+978F "鞏" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
鞏
U+978F "鞏" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "consolidate," "strengthen," or "firm," and is often used in the context of making something secure or durable, such as in the word "鞏固" meaning "to consolidate." Its composition combines the radical for "leather" or "hide" on the left with a phonetic component on the right, reflecting its original connection to tightening or reinforcing with leather strips. Historically found in classical texts, this character is associated with stability and reinforcement in both physical and abstract senses.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+978F |
| 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 | 鞏 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 鞏 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0x9E 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x978F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000978F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u978f |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | BE64 |
| kCCCII | 216023 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6F6D |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6F6D |
| kCangjie | MNTLJ |
| kCantonese | gung2 |
| kCihaiT | 1467.203 |
| kCowles | 1887 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1902.090 |
| kDefinition | bind; firm, secure, strong |
| kEACC | 216023 |
| kFanqie | 居悚 |
| kFenn | 8G |
| kFennIndex | 278.09 |
| kFourCornerCode | 1750.6 |
| kGB1 | 2514 |
| kGradeLevel | 6 |
| kGSR | 1172c' |
| kHangul | 공:0N |
| kHanYu | 74333.040 |
| kHanyuPinlu | gǒng(125) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 74333.040:gǒng |
| kHKGlyph | 4474 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1902.090 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74333.040 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1387.280 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-392E |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-BE64 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-705F |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-D0C5 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-4D79 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6F6D |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-6B65 |
| kJapanese | キョウ ク かたい |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | KATAI |
| kJapaneseOn | KYOU |
| kJis0 | 8063 |
| kKangXi | 1387.280 |
| kKarlgren | 470 |
| kKorean | KONG |
| kLau | 1006 |
| kMandarin | gǒng |
| kMatthews | 3718 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1341 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ027983 MJ027983:E0101 MJ027984:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 42819 42819:E0101 |
| kNelson | 5097 |
| kPhonetic | 689 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+7160+177.9.6 |
| kRSUnicode | 177.6 |
| kSBGY | 239.11 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "巩" U+5DE9 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 766.13 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | gǒng粵gung2 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 7255 |
| kTotalStrokes | 15 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | củng |
| kXerox | 256:363 |
| kXHC1983 | 0387.011:gǒng |