U+660E "明" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
明
U+660E "明" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a common East Asian ideograph composed of the radicals for sun and moon, symbolizing brightness, clarity, and light. It is widely used in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems, where it carries meanings such as bright, brilliant, to understand, or the concept of tomorrow. This character appears in numerous compound words and phrases, like "明白" (clear or to understand) in Chinese and "明日" (tomorrow) in Japanese, reflecting its deep cultural and linguistic significance related to illumination and knowledge.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+660E |
| 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 | 明 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 明 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0x98 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x660E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000660E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u660e |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A9FA |
| kCCCII | 214321 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4D7C |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4D7C |
| kCangjie | AB |
| kCantonese | ming4 |
| kCihaiT | 631.301 |
| kCowles | 2690 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0852.180 |
| kDefinition | bright, light, brilliant; clear |
| kEACC | 214321 |
| kFanqie | 武兵 |
| kFenn | 796A |
| kFennIndex | 344.04 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6702.0 |
| kGB0 | 3587 |
| kGB1 | 3587 |
| kGradeLevel | 1 |
| kGSR | 0760a |
| kHangul | 명:0E |
| kHanYu | 21491.080 |
| kHanyuPinlu | míng(1887) ming(96) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 21491.080:míng,mèng |
| kHKGlyph | 1769 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0852.180 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21491.080 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0491.120 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4377 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A9FA |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4C40 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-DAF2 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5925 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4D7C |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-5851 |
| kJapanese | メイ ミョウ ミン ベイ ボウ あかり あかるい あかるむ あからむ あきらか あける あく あくる あかす ひかり |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:1087 |
| kJapaneseKun | AKARUI AKIRAKA AKERU |
| kJapaneseOn | MEI MYOU |
| kJis0 | 4432 |
| kKangXi | 0491.120 |
| kKorean | MYENG |
| kLau | 2144 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 2494 |
| kMandarin | míng |
| kMatthews | 4534 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1815 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ013201 MJ013201:E0102 MJ013202:E0103 |
| kMorohashi | 13805:E0103 |
| kNelson | 2110 |
| kPhonetic | 903 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+3788+72.4.4 C+3788+74.4.4 V+14052+72.4.4 V+14052+74.4.4 |
| kRSUnicode | 72.4 |
| kSBGY | 186.13 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+6719<kMatthews |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 289.09 300.04 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | míng粵ming4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 2494 |
| kTang | *miæng |
| kTGHZ2013 | 254.120:míng |
| kTotalStrokes | 8 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | minh |
| kXerox | 241:173 |
| kXHC1983 | 0793.060:míng |