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
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
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 |
xū |
| 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 |