U+660C "昌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
昌
U+660C "昌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "prosperous," "flourishing," or "bright," and it is commonly used in East Asian languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Structurally, it is composed of two instances of the radical "日" (sun or day), one stacked atop the other, symbolizing the idea of successive days or enduring brightness, which conveys a sense of continuous growth and good fortune. This character appears in personal names, place names, and auspicious phrases, such as "昌盛" meaning thriving prosperity, and it has historical significance in classical texts and calligraphy, where its balanced form reflects harmony and positivity.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+660C |
| 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 | 昌 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 昌 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0x98 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x660C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000660C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u660c |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A9F7 |
| kCCCII | 21427D |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4D79 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4D79 |
| kCangjie | AA |
| kCantonese | coeng1 |
| kCihaiT | 630.501 |
| kCowles | 505 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0852.160 |
| kDefinition | light of sun; good, proper |
| kEACC | 21427D |
| kFanqie | 尺良 |
| kFenn | 803F |
| kFennIndex | 16.09 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6060.0 |
| kGB0 | 1893 |
| kGB1 | 1893 |
| kGSR | 0724a |
| kHangul | 창:0E |
| kHanYu | 21490.030 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 21490.030:chāng,chàng |
| kHKGlyph | 1766 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0852.160 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21490.030 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0491.100 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-327D |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A9F7 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3E3B |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-ECE6 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-7363 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4D79 |
| kIRG_VSource | V2-8C7E |
| kJapanese | ショウ さかん |
| kJinmeiyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:1084 |
| kJapaneseKun | SAKAN |
| kJapaneseOn | SHOU |
| kJis0 | 3027 |
| kKangXi | 0491.100 |
| kKorean | CHANG |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 2490 |
| kMandarin | chāng |
| kMatthews | 206 |
| kMeyerWempe | 220b |
| kMojiJoho | MJ013198 |
| kMorohashi | 13803 |
| kNelson | 2105 |
| kPhonetic | 119 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2467+72.4.4 |
| kRSUnicode | 72.4 |
| kSBGY | 173.28 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 289.08 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | chāng粵coeng1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 2490 |
| kTang | chiɑng |
| kTGHZ2013 | 038.050:chāng |
| kTotalStrokes | 8 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kXerox | 250:137 |
| kXHC1983 | 0120.050:chāng |