U+606F "息" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
息
U+606F "息" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "breath," "rest," or "to stop," and it is composed of the radical 心 (heart) combined with the element 自 (self or nose), reflecting its original sense of breathing or the breath of life. In classical and modern Chinese, it appears in compounds like 休息 meaning "to rest" and 消息 meaning "news" or "information," where the character conveys the idea of a pause or cessation. This character is widely used in East Asian languages including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, where it carries similar semantic associations with respiration, stillness, and vitality.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+606F |
| 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 | 息 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 息 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0x81 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x606F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000606F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u606f |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | AEA7 |
| kCCCII | 213E45 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5549 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5549 |
| kCangjie | HUP |
| kCantonese | sik1 |
| kCihaiT | 530.501 |
| kCowles | 3633 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0717.100 |
| kDefinition | rest, put stop to, end, cease |
| kEACC | 213E45 |
| kFanqie | 相即 |
| kFenn | 853B |
| kFennIndex | 160.09 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2633.0 |
| kGB0 | 4702 |
| kGB1 | 4702 |
| kGradeLevel | 2 |
| kGSR | 0925a |
| kHangul | 식:0E |
| kHanYu | 42291.040 |
| kHanyuPinlu | xi(392) xī(105) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 42291.040:xī |
| kHKGlyph | 1338 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0717.100 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42291.040 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0385.200 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4F22 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-AEA7 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4229 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E5BA |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6353 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5549 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-5540 |
| kJapanese | ソク ショク いき いこう やすむ やむ やめる |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:1973 |
| kJapaneseKun | IKI YASUMU YAMERU |
| kJapaneseOn | SOKU |
| kJis0 | 3409 |
| kKangXi | 0385.200 |
| kKorean | SIK |
| kLau | 2777 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 1873 |
| kMandarin | xī |
| kMatthews | 2495 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2797 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ011553 |
| kMorohashi | 10601 |
| kNelson | 3844 |
| kPhonetic | 146 1187 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2825+61.4.6 C+2825+132.6.4 |
| kRSUnicode | 61.6 |
| kSBGY | 525.18 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 222.14 564.07 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | xī粵sik1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 1873 |
| kTang | *siək |
| kTGHZ2013 | 391.180:xī |
| kTotalStrokes | 10 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | tức |
| kXerox | 244:070 |
| kXHC1983 | 1231.100:xī |