U+6E9D "溝" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
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U+6E9D "溝" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) logograph that primarily means "ditch," "gutter," "channel," or "ravine," and is composed of the water radical on the left and a phonetic component on the right. In modern usage, it appears in common words across East Asian languages, such as the Japanese term "溝" (mizo) for a trench or groove and the Chinese term "溝通" (gōutōng) meaning "to communicate," where it metaphorically bridges the gap between two points. Historically, this character has been used in classical texts to describe natural waterways or man-made drainage systems, reflecting its fundamental association with the flow and containment of water.
General Properties
Code Point
U+6E9D
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
溝
HTML Hex Encoding
溝
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE6 0xBA 0x9D
UTF-16 Encoding
0x6E9D
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00006E9D
C/C++/Java Escape
\u6e9d
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Han
Unihan Properties
kBigFive
B7BE
kCCCII
21483D
kCNS1986
1-6464
kCNS1992
1-6464
kCangjie
ETTB
kCantonese
kau1
kCihaiT
819.401
kCowles
1570
kDaeJaweon
1046.220
kDefinition
ditch, drain, narrow waterway
kEACC
21483D
kFanqie
古侯
kFenn
601B
kFennIndex
255.07
kFourCornerCode
3514.7
kGB1
2521
kGradeLevel
4
kGSR
0109h
kHangul
구:0N
kHanYu
31692.060
kHanyuPinlu
gōu(136)
kHanyuPinyin
31692.060:gōu,gǎng,kòu
kHKGlyph
2266
kIICore
ATJHKMP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
31692.060
kIRG_GSource
G1-3935
kIRG_HSource
HB1-B7BE
kIRG_JSource
J0-3942
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-D0FB
kIRG_KSource
K0-4F35
kIRG_TSource
T1-6464
kJapanese
コウ みぞ
kJoyoKanji
2010
kKoreanName
2015
kJapaneseKun
MIZO
kJapaneseOn
KOU
kJis0
2534
kKangXi
0639.340
kKarlgren
418
kKorean
KWU
kLau
861 1667
kMandarin
gōu
kMatthews
3429
kMeyerWempe
1064
kMojiJoho
MJ015687 MJ015687:E0102 MJ015686:E0103
kMorohashi
17944:E0103
kNelson
2657
kPhonetic
589
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+2004+85.3.10 V+7681+85.3.10
kRSUnicode
85.10
kSBGY
214.44
kSimplifiedVariant
kSMSZD2003Index
376.17
kSMSZD2003Readings
gōu粵gau1,kau1
kTaiwanTelegraph
3297
kTang
gou
kTotalStrokes
13
kUnihanCore2020
HJKMPT
kXerox
253:243
kXHC1983
0390.011:gōu