U+5915 "夕" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
夕
U+5915 "夕" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that originally pictographically represents the moon, but over time it has come to specifically signify the evening or sunset, often appearing in compounds related to nightfall, such as "夕陽" meaning "setting sun" or "夕食" meaning "evening meal." In modern usage, this character is a common radical found in other kanji and hanzi, contributing its nuance of "evening" to characters like "外" (outside) and "名" (name), which suggests a historical connection to nighttime or dusk activities. Its stroke order consists of just three strokes, making it one of the simpler yet semantically rich characters in the CJK unified ideograph set.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5915 |
| 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 | 夕 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 夕 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xA4 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5915 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005915 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5915 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A469 |
| kCCCII | 21387A |
| kCNS1986 | 1-444A |
| kCNS1992 | 1-444A |
| kCangjie | NI |
| kCantonese | zik6 |
| kCihaiT | 336.401 |
| kCowles | 4547 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0487.040 |
| kDefinition | evening, night, dusk; slanted |
| kEACC | 21387A |
| kFanqie | 祥易 |
| kFenn | 267G |
| kFennIndex | 163.05 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2720.0 |
| kGB0 | 4706 |
| kGB1 | 4706 |
| kGradeLevel | 4 |
| kGSR | 0796a |
| kHangul | 석:0E |
| kHanYu | 20859.010 |
| kHanyuPinlu | xī(30) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 20859.010:xī,yì |
| kHDZRadBreak | ⼣[U+2F23]:20859.010 |
| kHKGlyph | 0827 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0487.040 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 20859.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0246.010 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4F26 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A469 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4D3C |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E2A1 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-602A |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-444A |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-5141 |
| kJapanese | セキ ジャク ゆう ゆうべ |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:46 |
| kJapaneseKun | YUU YUUBE |
| kJapaneseOn | SEKI |
| kJis0 | 4528 |
| kKangXi | 0246.010 |
| kKorean | SEK SA |
| kLau | 1461 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 1119 |
| kMandarin | xī |
| kMatthews | 2485 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3348 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ009430 |
| kMorohashi | 05749 |
| kNelson | 1167 |
| kPhonetic | 170 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+3878+36.3.0 |
| kRSUnicode | 36.0 |
| kSBGY | 519.01 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 144.20 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | xī粵zik6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 1119 |
| kTang | *ziɛk |
| kTGHZ2013 | 391.010:xī |
| kTotalStrokes | 3 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | tịch |
| kXerox | 255:144 |
| kXHC1983 | 1232.020:xī |