U+5869 "塩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+5869 "塩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is the Chinese character for "salt," commonly used in both traditional and simplified Chinese writing as well as in Japanese kanji. This ideograph combines the radical for "earth" or "soil" on the left with a phonetic component on the right, reflecting its historical connection to salt production from the earth or sea. In Japanese, it is a regular-use character with the on'yomi reading "en" and kun'yomi "shio," and it appears in words such as "shio" for salt itself or "shiozuke" for salt pickling. Its semantic core represents a fundamental seasoning and preservative, making it a significant character in culinary and cultural contexts across East Asia.
General Properties
Code Point
U+5869
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
塩
HTML Hex Encoding
塩
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE5 0xA1 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding
0x5869
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00005869
C/C++/Java Escape
\u5869
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Han
Unihan Properties
kCCCII
2D6251
kCNS1986
E-405A
kCNS1992
3-405A
kCangjie
GORT
kCantonese
jim4
kDaeJaweon
0474.270
kDefinition
salt
kEACC
2D6251
kFanqie
余廉
kFourCornerCode
4811.7
kHangul
염:1
kHanYu
10472.111
kIICore
AJ
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
10472.111
kIRG_GSource
GE-3479
kIRG_HSource
H-98E3
kIRG_JSource
J0-3176
kIRG_KPSource
KP1-3C10
kIRG_KSource
K1-6753
kIRG_TSource
T3-405A
kJapanese
エン しお
kJoyoKanji
2010
kJapaneseKun
SHIO
kJapaneseOn
EN
kJis0
1786
kKangXi
0236.341
kKorean
YEM
kMandarin
yán
kMatthews
7352
kMojiJoho
MJ009234
kMorohashi
05382
kNelson
1125
kPhonetic
544
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+1304+32.3.10
kRSUnicode
32.10
kSemanticVariant
U+9E7D<kMatthews
kTotalStrokes
13
kUnihanCore2020
HJ
kJapaneseOldVariant
U+9E7D