U+60FB "惻" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
惻
U+60FB "惻" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character traditionally meaning "sympathy," "compassion," or "grief," and is pronounced as "cè" in Mandarin. It appears in classical texts such as the Mencius, where it forms part of the well known phrase "惻隱之心" (cè yǐn zhī xīn), referring to the innate feeling of compassion that is central to Confucian moral philosophy. Structurally, it combines the heart radical 忄 (xīn) on the left with the phonetic component 則 (zé) on the right, indicating both its semantic association with emotion and its approximate pronunciation. This character is used in both Traditional Chinese and Japanese, where it carries similar connotations of empathetic sorrow or commiseration.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+60FB |
| 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 | 惻 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 惻 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0x83 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x60FB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000060FB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u60fb |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B46C |
| kCCCII | 213E70 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5F33 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5F33 |
| kCangjie | PBCN |
| kCantonese | cak1 |
| kCihaiT | 536.404 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0729.030 |
| kDefinition | feel anguish, feel compassion |
| kEACC | 213E70 |
| kFanqie | 初力 |
| kFenn | 858G |
| kFennIndex | 549.09 |
| kFourCornerCode | 9200.0 |
| kGB1 | 6692 |
| kGSR | 0906e |
| kHangul | 측:0N |
| kHanYu | 42327.120 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 42327.120:cè |
| kHKGlyph | 1378 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0729.030 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42327.120 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0393.050 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-627C |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B46C |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-583C |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-EEE4 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-7633 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5F33 |
| kIRG_VSource | V2-8C2C |
| kJapanese | ソク ショク シキ いたむ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | ITAMU |
| kJapaneseOn | SOKU SHOKU |
| kJis0 | 5628 |
| kKangXi | 0393.050 |
| kKorean | CHUK |
| kMandarin | cè |
| kMatthews | 6758 |
| kMeyerWempe | 135a |
| kMojiJoho | MJ011707 |
| kMorohashi | 10869 |
| kNelson | 1722 |
| kPhonetic | 57 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+4869+61.3.9 |
| kRSUnicode | 61.9 |
| kSBGY | 526.09 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "恻" U+607B CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 227.04 63.09 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | cè粵cak1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 1933 |
| kTang | *chriək |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kXerox | 270:127 |