U+5DDD "川" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+5DDD "川" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a logogram representing a river or stream, and its pictographic origins can be traced back to ancient Chinese oracle bone script, where it was drawn as three wavy lines flowing together to evoke the shape of a watercourse. In modern usage across East Asian languages including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, this character retains its core meaning of a river, often appearing in place names and compound words such as "四川" (Sichuan, meaning "four rivers") or "川崎" (Kawasaki, a Japanese city name). Its compact three-stroke structure makes it a common element in calligraphy and typography, symbolizing the natural flow and division of water landscapes.
General Properties
Code Point
U+5DDD
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
川
HTML Hex Encoding
川
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE5 0xB7 0x9D
UTF-16 Encoding
0x5DDD
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00005DDD
C/C++/Java Escape
\u5ddd
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Han
Unihan Properties
kBigFive
A474
kCCCII
213C34
kCNS1986
1-4455
kCNS1992
1-4455
kCangjie
LLL
kCantonese
cyun1
kCihaiT
462.202
kCowles
604
kDaeJaweon
0624.070
kDefinition
stream, river; flow; boil
kEACC
213C34
kFanqie
昌緣
kFenn
425E
kFennIndex
102.02
kFourCornerCode
2200.0
kGB0
2008
kGB1
2008
kGSR
0462a
kHangul
천:0E
kHanYu
10032.020
kHanyuPinyin
10032.020:chuān
kHKGlyph
1131
kIICore
AGTJHKMP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
10032.020
kIRG_GSource
G0-3428
kIRG_HSource
HB1-A474
kIRG_JSource
J0-406E
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-EDAB
kIRG_KSource
K0-7439
kIRG_TSource
T1-4455
kIRG_VSource
V1-5357
kJapanese
セン かわ
kJoyoKanji
2010
kKoreanEducationHanja
2007
kTGH
2013:43
kJapaneseKun
KAWA
kJapaneseOn
SEN
kJis0
3278
kKangXi
0323.230
kKorean
CHEN
kMainlandTelegraph
1557
kMandarin
chuān
kMatthews
1439
kMeyerWempe
376
kMojiJoho
MJ010763
kMorohashi
08673
kNelson
1447
kPhonetic
273
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+2706+47.3.0
kRSUnicode
47.0
kSBGY
140.48
kSemanticVariant
U+5DDB<kMatthews
kSMSZD2003Index
189.05
kSMSZD2003Readings
chuān粵cyun1
kTaiwanTelegraph
1557
kTang
*chiuɛn
kTGHZ2013
051.180:chuān
kTotalStrokes
3
kUnihanCore2020
GHJKMPT
kVietnamese
xuyên
kXerox
246:334
kXHC1983
0163.010:chuān