U+60E9 "惩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+60E9 "惩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to punish," "to discipline," or "to warn against," and it is composed of two semantic components: the radical 心 (heart/mind) suggesting an inner or psychological aspect, and the phonetic element 征 which contributes to its pronunciation "chéng" in Mandarin. Historically and in modern usage, it appears in words such as 惩罚 (punishment) and 惩戒 (disciplinary warning), often carrying connotations of correction through penalty or cautionary measures. This character is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, standardizing its representation across East Asian scripts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+60E9
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	惩
HTML Hex Encoding	惩
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE6 0x83 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding	0x60E9
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000060E9
C/C++/Java Escape	\u60e9

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

kCCCII	222C6E
kCNS1986	E-3B5A
kCNS1992	3-3B5A
kCangjie	HMP
kCantonese	cing4
kDefinition	punish, reprimand; warn
kEACC	222C6E
kFennIndex	30.05
kFourCornerCode	2133
kGB0	1945
kHanYu	42311.130
kHanyuPinlu	chéng(15)
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	42311.130
kIRGKangXi	0392.181
kIRG_GSource	G0-334D
kIRG_HSource	H-A0E5
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-011693
kIRG_TSource	T3-3B5A
kJapanese	チョウ
kTGH	2013:2703
kKangXi	0392.181
kMainlandTelegraph	2033
kMandarin	chéng
kMatthews	384
kMojiJoho	MJ011693
kMorohashi	10851
kPhonetic	199
kRSUnicode	61.8
kSemanticVariant	U+61F2<kMatthews
kSimplifiedVariant	"惩" U+60E9 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kTGHZ2013	044.100:chéng
kTotalStrokes	12
kTraditionalVariant	"惩" U+60E9 CJK Unified Ideograph-# "懲" U+61F2 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	GH
kXHC1983	0139.040:chéng