U+9E79 "鹹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
鹹
U+9E79 "鹹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character meaning "salty" or "salted," typically used in the context of taste or food preservation. It belongs to the Kangxi Radical 197 (鹵, meaning "salt") and is composed of the salt radical combined with a phonetic component. This character is historically significant as it appears in classical Chinese texts, including the ancient dictionary Shuowen Jiezi, and remains in modern usage in both Traditional Chinese and Japanese (where it is known as jōyō kanji). In culinary contexts, it often describes foods like salted fish or pickled vegetables, and it stands as a distinct concept from the simpler modern character 咸, which also means "all" or "every" in addition to "salty."
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9E79 |
| 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 | 鹹 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 鹹 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xB9 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9E79 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009E79 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9e79 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C4D0 |
| kCCCII | 216250 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7A5B |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7A5B |
| kCangjie | YWIHR |
| kCantonese | haam4 |
| kCihaiT | 1547.101 |
| kCowles | 926 |
| kDaeJaweon | 2035.220 |
| kDefinition | salty, briny; salted; pickled |
| kEACC | 216250 |
| kFanqie | 胡讒 |
| kFenn | 344B |
| kFennIndex | 178.05 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2365.0 |
| kGB1 | 8884 |
| kGradeLevel | 3 |
| kGSR | 0671f |
| kHangul | 함:0N |
| kHanYu | 74610.190 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 74610.190:xián,jiǎn |
| kHKGlyph | 4701 |
| kIICore | ATHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 2035.220 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74610.190 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1507.200 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-7874 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C4D0 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-7344 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F2EA |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-7969 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7A5B |
| kJapanese | カン ゲン しおからい しおけ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | SHIOKARAI SHIOKE |
| kJapaneseOn | KAN |
| kJis0 | 8336 |
| kKangXi | 1507.200 |
| kKarlgren | 148 |
| kKorean | HAM |
| kLau | 1095 |
| kMandarin | xián |
| kMatthews | 2668 |
| kMeyerWempe | 629 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ029773 |
| kMorohashi | 47553 |
| kNelson | 5373 |
| kPhonetic | 419 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+7415+197.11.9 |
| kRSUnicode | 197.9 |
| kSBGY | 229.27 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "咸" U+54B8 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 820.03 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | xián粵haam4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 7768 |
| kTotalStrokes | 20 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kXerox | 255:366 |
| kXHC1983 | 1248.011:xián |