U+6608 "昈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+6608 "昈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used in traditional and simplified writing, primarily classified as an ideograph with the meaning of "bright" or "clear," often associated with the dawn or the light of the rising sun. Its structure combines the sun radical 日 on the left, indicating its connection to daylight, and the phonetic component 戶 (hu) on the right, which suggests its pronunciation in Mandarin as hù. Historically, it appears in classical texts such as the Shuowen Jiezi, where it is defined as a term for the morning light or the luminous glow before sunrise, though it is rarely used in modern everyday language, making it an uncommon character encountered mainly in literary or scholarly contexts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+6608
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	昈
HTML Hex Encoding	昈
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE6 0x98 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding	0x6608
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00006608
C/C++/Java Escape	\u6608

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	CCC8
kCCCII	223759
kCNS1986	2-2729
kCNS1992	2-2729
kCangjie	AHS
kCantonese	wu6
kCihaiT	630.401
kDaeJaweon	0852.110
kFanqie	侯古
kFourCornerCode	6300.7
kGB3	3955
kHangul	호:N
kHanYu	21496.040
kHanyuPinyin	21496.040:hù
kIRGDaeJaweon	0852.110
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	21496.040
kIRGKangXi	0491.030
kIRG_GSource	G3-4757
kIRG_HSource	HB2-CCC8
kIRG_JSource	J14-2D76
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-4920
kIRG_KSource	K2-3854
kIRG_TSource	T2-2729
kJapanese	コ ゴ
kKoreanName	2018
kTGH	2013:6677
kJIS0213	2,13,86
kJapaneseKun	AKIRAKA
kJapaneseOn	KO GO
kJis1	3387
kKangXi	0491.030
kMandarin	hù
kMojiJoho	MJ013191 MJ013191:E0101 MJ013192:E0102 MJ013193:E0103
kMorohashi	13795 13795:E0101
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+17735+63.4.4 C+17735+72.4.4
kRSUnicode	72.4
kSBGY	267.23
kTGHZ2013	141.200:hù
kTotalStrokes	8
kUnihanCore2020	GHMT