U+6601 "昁" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+6601 "昁" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare Chinese character that historically represents the concept of darkness or obscurity, often interpreted as "night" or "gloomy." It is classified as a CJK Unified Ideograph, belonging to the set of East Asian logographic characters used in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems, though its usage is extremely uncommon in modern texts. Structurally, it combines the radical for "sun" or "day" (日) with a phonetic or semantic component that contributes to its meaning of dimness or lack of light.

General Properties

Code Point	U+6601
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	昁
HTML Hex Encoding	昁
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE6 0x98 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding	0x6601
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00006601
C/C++/Java Escape	\u6601

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	223771
kCNS1986	E-2942
kCNS1992	3-2942
kCangjie	AJB
kCantonese	bui3
kDaeJaweon	0851.310
kHanYu	21489.010
kHanyuPinyin	21489.010:bèi
kIRGDaeJaweon	0851.310
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	21489.010
kIRGKangXi	0490.320
kIRG_GSource	GE-3B5B
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-013183
kIRG_KSource	K2-3850
kIRG_TSource	T3-2942
kJapanese	ハイ
kKangXi	0490.320
kMandarin	bèi
kMojiJoho	MJ013183
kMorohashi	13782
kRSUnicode	72.4
kTotalStrokes	8