U+6598 "斘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+6598 "斘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and archaic Chinese character that primarily functions as a variant form of the character "升" (shēng) meaning "to rise," "to ascend," or "to advance." Its composition combines a radical related to a battle axe or weapon with a component indicating movement, reflecting its historical use in classical texts to denote climbing, promotion, or the act of lifting upward. This character, while not commonly used in modern standard Chinese, appears in certain ancient manuscripts and literary works, preserving a nuanced orthographic variation within the rich tradition of CJK script evolution.

General Properties

Code Point	U+6598
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	斘
HTML Hex Encoding	斘
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE6 0x96 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding	0x6598
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00006598
C/C++/Java Escape	\u6598

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	243B3B
kCangjie	NIYJ
kCantonese	sing1
kDaeJaweon	0836.020
kHanYu	32252.020
kHanyuPinyin	32252.020:shēng
kIRGDaeJaweon	0836.020
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	32252.020
kIRGKangXi	0478.020
kIRG_GSource	GE-3B49
kIRG_JSource	J1-415B
kIRG_TSource	T4-2441
kJapanese	ショウ
kJapaneseKun	NOBORU
kJapaneseOn	SHOU
kJis1	3359
kKangXi	0478.020
kMandarin	shēng
kMojiJoho	MJ013060
kMorohashi	13491
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+21686+36.3.4 C+21686+68.4.3
kRSUnicode	68.3
kTotalStrokes	7