U+1D348 "𝍈" Tetragram for Darkening Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𝍈
U+1D348 "𝍈" Tetragram for Darkening is a symbol from the Tai Xuan Jing, a classical Chinese divination text composed by Yang Xiong around the turn of the 1st century AD. In its original context, this tetragram represents a specific hexagram like structure in a system of 81 such symbols, each associated with a concept drawn from nature and cosmic cycles, where "Darkening" suggests a phase of diminishment, obscurity, or the waning of light, often linked to autumn or the forces of contraction and decay. The character belongs to the Tai Xuan Jing block of Unicode, which encodes these symbols for modern digital use, preserving their role in ancient Chinese philosophy and metaphysical thought.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1D348 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Tetragram for Darkening |
| Block | Tai Xuan Jing Symbols |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𝍈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𝍈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9D 0x8D 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD834 0xDF48 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001D348 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud834\udf48 |
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 | Alphabetic |
| East Asian Width | Wide |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |