U+6609 "昉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
昉
U+6609 "昉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character composed of the radical for sun or day on the left and the phonetic component for square or direction on the right, carrying the primary meanings of "beginning" or "dawn." In classical and modern Chinese, it is most commonly used in personal names and literary contexts to convey a sense of starting, originating, or the first light of day. This character also appears in historical records and poetry, where it evokes imagery related to sunrise or the onset of a new period, reflecting its semantic roots in time and emergence.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+6609 |
| 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 | 昉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 昉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0x98 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x6609 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00006609 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u6609 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | CCC4 |
| kCCCII | 22375A |
| kCNS1986 | 2-2725 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-2725 |
| kCangjie | AYHS |
| kCantonese | fong2 |
| kCihaiT | 630.402 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0852.120 |
| kDefinition | bright dawn, daybreak; appear |
| kEACC | 22375A |
| kFanqie | 分网 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6002.7 |
| kGB3 | 3954 |
| kGB8 | 9227 |
| kGSR | 0740j |
| kHangul | 방:0N |
| kHanYu | 21496.020 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 21496.020:fǎng |
| kIBMJapan | FAD1 |
| kIICore | AGTKP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0852.120 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21496.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0491.040 |
| kIRG_GSource | G3-4756 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-CCC4 |
| kIRG_JSource | J13-752D |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-DDBA |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5B32 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-2725 |
| kJapanese | ホウ はじめて まさに |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:3906 |
| kJIS0213 | 1,85,13 |
| kJapaneseKun | AKIRAKA |
| kJapaneseOn | HOU |
| kJis1 | 3388 |
| kKangXi | 0491.040 |
| kKorean | PANG |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 2499 |
| kMandarin | fǎng |
| kMatthews | 1809 |
| kMeyerWempe | 533e |
| kMojiJoho | MJ013194 |
| kMorohashi | 13796 |
| kPhonetic | 373 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+8474+70.4.4 C+8474+72.4.4 |
| kRSUnicode | 72.4 |
| kSBGY | 313.02 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 289.06 285.05 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | fǎng粵fong2 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 2499 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 093.170:fǎng |
| kTotalStrokes | 8 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHKMPT |
| kXerox | 277:335 |
| kXHC1983 | 0309.040:fǎng |