U+6638 "昸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
昸
U+6638 "昸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used in historical texts and modern Chinese writing, where it represents the concept of "pale" or "faint light," often associated with the glow of dawn or twilight. Its structure combines the radical 日 (sun, light) with the phonetic component 东 (east), suggesting the soft illumination that appears in the eastern sky. In the context of the Unicode standard, it belongs to the CJK Unified Ideographs block, which encodes common and rare Chinese, Japanese, and Korean logographic characters. Though not frequently used in everyday contemporary language, "昸" appears in classical literature and poetry to convey nuanced descriptions of light and atmosphere.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+6638 |
| 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 | 昸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 昸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0x98 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x6638 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00006638 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u6638 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCNS1986 | E-2D25 |
| kCNS1992 | 3-2D25 |
| kCangjie | AHEY |
| kCantonese | dung1 |
| kHanYu | 21503.040 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21503.040 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0494.140 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-3B63 |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-013250 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-492E |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-2D25 |
| kJapanese | トウ |
| kKangXi | 0494.140 |
| kMandarin | dōng |
| kMojiJoho | MJ013250 |
| kMorohashi | 13875 |
| kRSUnicode | 72.5 |
| kTotalStrokes | 9 |