U+663C "昼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

昼

U+663C "昼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that means "daytime," "noon," or "daylight," and it is commonly used in both Chinese and Japanese writing systems. In Chinese, it is read as "zhòu" and appears in words like "白昼" meaning "broad daylight," while in Japanese it is read as "hiru" and is found in terms such as "昼間" or "daytime." The character is composed of the radical "日" which represents the sun or day, combined with a simplified form of "畫" or "画" indicating boundary or division, symbolically referring to the period of sunlight between dawn and dusk. As part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideographs block, this character is used across East Asian languages to express the concept of the daytime portion of a 24 hour cycle.

General Properties

Code Point	U+663C
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	昼
HTML Hex Encoding	昼
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE6 0x98 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding	0x663C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000663C
C/C++/Java Escape	\u663c

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

kCCCII	274332
kCNS1986	E-2C37
kCNS1992	3-2C37
kCangjie	SOAM
kCantonese	zau3
kDaeJaweon	0859.070
kDefinition	daytime, daylight
kEACC	274332
kFourCornerCode	7710.6
kGB0	5471
kHanYu	21504.030
kHanyuPinlu	zhòu(29)
kIICore	AGJ
kIRGDaeJaweon	0859.070
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	21504.030
kIRGKangXi	0494.181
kIRG_GSource	G0-5667
kIRG_JSource	J0-436B
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-4943
kIRG_KSource	K2-3864
kIRG_TSource	T3-2C37
kIRG_VSource	V4-465D
kJapanese	チュウひる
kJoyoKanji	2010
kTGH	2013:1723
kJapaneseKun	HIRU
kJapaneseOn	CHUU
kJis0	3575
kKangXi	0494.181
kKorean	CWU
kMainlandTelegraph	2521
kMandarin	zhòu
kMojiJoho	MJ013255 MJ013255:E0101 MJ013254:E0102
kMorohashi	13886:E0102
kNelson	0053 2127 3720
kPhonetic	84
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+2985+44.3.6 C+2985+72.4.5
kRSUnicode	72.5 44.6
kSimplifiedVariant	"昼" U+663C CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	291.16
kTGHZ2013	483.040:zhòu
kTotalStrokes	9
kTraditionalVariant	"昼" U+663C CJK Unified Ideograph-# "晝" U+665D CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	GJ
kXHC1983	1506.190:zhòu