U+623C "戼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+623C "戼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and ancient Chinese character that historically represents the second of the twelve Earthly Branches, corresponding to the rabbit in the Chinese zodiac and the direction of east, as well as the period from 5 to 7 AM. This glyph, closely related to the more common character 卯, typically appears in classical texts and calligraphy, and it belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, which standardizes East Asian writing systems across digital platforms.

General Properties

Code Point	U+623C
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	戼
HTML Hex Encoding	戼
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE6 0x88 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding	0x623C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000623C
C/C++/Java Escape	\u623c

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

kCNS1986	E-2629
kCNS1992	3-2629
kCangjie	NSMLS
kCantonese	maau5
kCihaiT	555.401
kDaeJaweon	0759.120
kDefinition	fourth earthly branch
kFanqie	莫飽
kHanYu	10053.150
kIRGDaeJaweon	0759.120
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10053.150
kIRGKangXi	0415.080
kIRG_GSource	GE-3978
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-012113
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-450B
kIRG_TSource	T3-2629
kJapanese	ボウ う
kJapaneseOn	BOU
kKangXi	0415.080
kMandarin	mǎo
kMojiJoho	MJ012113
kMorohashi	11708
kRSUnicode	63.3
kSBGY	300.01
kSemanticVariant	U+536F<kCihaiT:TZ,kHanYu:TZ
kTotalStrokes	7