U+6634 "昴" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+6634 "昴" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character pronounced mǎo in Mandarin, known primarily as the name for the Pleiades star cluster in Chinese astronomy and astrology. This ideograph is composed of the radical for "sun" or "day" (日) above the phonetic component 卯, and it appears in classical texts such as the Confucian Analects, where it refers to the Mansion of the Pleiades, one of the 28 lunar mansions in the Chinese zodiac. In addition to its astronomical usage, the character can denote a hairless tail or tufted tail in certain contexts, though its most recognized application remains tied to celestial symbolism. As part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs, it is encoded for digital representation across multiple East Asian writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+6634
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	昴
HTML Hex Encoding	昴
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE6 0x98 0xB4
UTF-16 Encoding	0x6634
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00006634
C/C++/Java Escape	\u6634

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	CEF6
kCCCII	22382B
kCNS1986	2-2A77
kCNS1992	2-2A77
kCangjie	AHHL
kCantonese	maau5
kCihaiT	639.207
kDaeJaweon	0858.120
kDefinition	18th lunar mansion, determinative star 17 Tauri (Electra)
kEACC	22382B
kFanqie	莫飽
kFourCornerCode	6072.7
kGB0	7436
kGB1	7436
kGSR	1114g
kHangul	묘:0N
kHanYu	21503.020
kHanyuPinyin	21503.020:mǎo
kIICore	AGJKP
kIRGDaeJaweon	0858.120
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	21503.020
kIRGKangXi	0494.060
kIRG_GSource	G0-6A44
kIRG_HSource	HB2-CEF6
kIRG_JSource	J0-5A65
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-DBC9
kIRG_KSource	K0-595B
kIRG_TSource	T2-2A77
kJapanese	ボウ ミョウ ル リュウ すばる
kJinmeiyoKanji	2010
kKoreanName	2015
kTGH	2013:4199
kJapaneseKun	SUBARU
kJapaneseOn	BOU
kJis0	5869
kKangXi	0494.060
kKorean	MYO
kMainlandTelegraph	2510
kMandarin	mǎo
kMatthews	4370
kMeyerWempe	1759a
kMojiJoho	MJ013245
kMorohashi	13865
kPhonetic	870
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+5098+72.4.5
kRSUnicode	72.5
kSBGY	300.05
kSMSZD2003Index	291.03
kSMSZD2003Readings	mǎo粵maau5
kTaiwanTelegraph	2510
kTGHZ2013	244.180:mǎo
kTotalStrokes	9
kUnihanCore2020	GHJKMPT
kXerox	274:330
kXHC1983	0769.070:mǎo