U+9E78 "鹸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
鹸
U+9E78 "鹸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily used in Japanese and traditional Han contexts, where it represents the simplified form of the character for "alkali" or "base," relating to chemical substances with a high pH. It is a variant of the more common character "鹼" and appears in historical and modern East Asian texts, particularly in scientific, industrial, and culinary terminology. This character belongs to the CJK Unified Ideographs block, encoding logographic scripts from Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese, and its structure combines the radical for "salt" with phonetic elements to convey its meaning.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9E78 |
| 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 | 鹸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 鹸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xB9 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9E78 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009E78 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9e78 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCangjie | YWOMO |
| kCantonese | gaan2 |
| kDefinition | alkaline, alkali, lye, salt |
| kFourCornerCode | 2868.6 |
| kHanYu | 74610.131 |
| kIICore | AJ |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74610.131 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1507.181 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-5757 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3834 |
| kJapanese | ケン カン ゲン セン あく |
| kJapaneseKun | AKU |
| kJapaneseOn | KEN KAN SEN |
| kJis0 | 2420 |
| kKangXi | 1507.181 |
| kMandarin | jiǎn |
| kMojiJoho | MJ029772 |
| kMorohashi | H788 |
| kNelson | 5374 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1896+197.11.8 V+20260+197.7.8 |
| kRSUnicode | 197.8 |
| kTotalStrokes | 19 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | J |