U+620C "戌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+620C "戌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily represents the eleventh Earthly Branch, which corresponds to the Dog in the Chinese zodiac and is associated with the direction west-northwest, the time period from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM, and the month of October or November in the traditional Chinese calendar. In classical Chinese, it can also refer to a type of ancient weapon or tool, such as a broad-bladed dagger axe, and is used as a radical or component in other characters. This character appears in historical texts like oracle bone script and bronze inscriptions, where it was originally a pictograph of a halberd, and today it remains in common use for calendar, horoscope, and ritual purposes across East Asian cultures.

General Properties

Code Point U+620C
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 戌
HTML Hex Encoding 戌
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE6 0x88 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding 0x620C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000620C
C/C++/Java Escape \u620c

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

kBigFive A6A6
kCCCII 213F61
kCNS1986 1-4827
kCNS1992 1-4827
kCangjie IHM
kCantonese seot1
kCihaiT 550.401
kDaeJaweon 0752.080
kDefinition eleventh earthly branch
kEACC 213F61
kFanqie 辛聿
kFenn 342H
kFennIndex 190.07
kFourCornerCode 5320.0
kGB0 4871
kGB1 4871
kGSR 1257h
kHangul 술:0E
kHanYu 21398.010
kHanyuPinyin 21398.010:xū,qu
kHKGlyph 1455
kIICore AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon 0752.080
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 21398.010
kIRGKangXi 0411.040
kIRG_GSource G0-5067
kIRG_HSource HB1-A6A6
kIRG_JSource J0-587C
kIRG_KPSource KP0-E4E0
kIRG_KSource K0-6279
kIRG_TSource T1-4827
kIRG_VSource V1-5633
kJapanese ジュツ シュツ シュチ いぬ
kKoreanEducationHanja 2007
kTGH 2013:387
kJapaneseKun INU
kJapaneseOn JUTSU
kJis0 5692
kKangXi 0411.040
kKorean SWUL
kMainlandTelegraph 2049
kMandarin
kMatthews 2861
kMeyerWempe 2895a
kMojiJoho MJ012059
kMorohashi 11535
kNelson 1796
kPhonetic 1279 1499
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+4933+62.4.2
kRSUnicode 62.2
kSBGY 474.06
kSMSZD2003Index 235.01
kSMSZD2003Readings xū粵seot1
kTaiwanTelegraph 2049
kTGHZ2013 309.040:qu 412.060:xū
kTotalStrokes 6
kUnihanCore2020 GHJKMPT
kVietnamese tuất
kXerox 262:257
kXHC1983 0947.020:qu 1300.010:xū