U+5E9A "庚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

庚
Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+5E9A "庚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents the seventh Heavenly Stem in the traditional Chinese sexagenary cycle, often associated with the element Metal and the direction West. In classical Chinese cosmology, it is linked to concepts of age, change, and the autumn season, and it appears in words related to "age" or "period," such as "年庚" (nian geng) meaning one's age or birth year. The character is also used in modern contexts to denote "path" or "way" in certain compound terms, and it frequently occurs in historical and literary texts, including the names of eras or titles in East Asian cultures.

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General Properties

Code Point
U+5E9A
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
庚
HTML Hex Encoding
庚
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE5 0xBA 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding
0x5E9A
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00005E9A
C/C++/Java Escape
\u5e9a

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check
Yes
NFD Quick Check
Yes
NFKC Quick Check
Yes
NFKD Quick Check
Yes
Numeric Type
None
Numeric Value
NaN
Line Break
Ideographic
East Asian Width
Wide
Script
Han
Script Extensions
Han
Indic Syllabic Category
Other
ID Start
Yes
XID Start
Yes
ID Continue
Yes
XID Continue
Yes
Alphabetic
Yes
Vertical Orientation
Upright
Grapheme Base
Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break
Other
Word Break
Other
Sentence Break
OLetter
Ideographic
Yes
Unified Ideograph
Yes

Unihan Properties

kBigFive
A9B0
kCCCII
213C6F
kCNS1986
1-4D32
kCNS1992
1-4D32
kCangjie
ILO
kCantonese
gang1
kCihaiT
487.303
kCowles
1554
kDaeJaweon
0654.100
kDefinition
7th heavenly stem
kEACC
213C6F
kFanqie
古行
kFenn
834F
kFennIndex
248.01
kFourCornerCode
0023.7
kGB0
2493
kGB1
2493
kGSR
0746a
kHangul
경:0E
kHanYu
20879.060
kHanyuPinyin
20879.060:gēng
kHKGlyph
1190
kIICore
AGTJHKMP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
20879.060
kIRG_GSource
G0-387D
kIRG_HSource
HB1-A9B0
kIRG_JSource
J0-392E
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-CFB6
kIRG_KSource
K0-4C52
kIRG_TSource
T1-4D32
kIRG_VSource
V1-5426
kJapanese
コウ キョウ かのえ
kJinmeiyoKanji
2010
kKoreanEducationHanja
2007
kTGH
2013:1219
kJapaneseKun
KANOE
kJapaneseOn
KOU
kJis0
2514
kKangXi
0344.220
kKarlgren
317
kKorean
KYENG
kMainlandTelegraph
1649
kMandarin
gēng
kMatthews
3339
kMeyerWempe
1045a
kMojiJoho
MJ010985
kMorohashi
09278
kNelson
1505
kPhonetic
577
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+1984+53.3.5
kRSUnicode
53.5
kSBGY
183.43
kSMSZD2003Index
200.03
kSMSZD2003Readings
gēng粵gang1
kTaiwanTelegraph
1649
kTang
gæng
kTGHZ2013
112.100:gēng
kTotalStrokes
8
kUnihanCore2020
GHJKMPT
kVietnamese
canh
kXerox
261:144
kXHC1983
0377.060:gēng