U+663D "昽" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+663D "昽" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "the light of the rising sun" or "to be about dawn," often conveying a sense of faint or early morning brightness. It belongs to the Kangxi radical 72, which is the "sun" radical, and its traditional usage appears in classical Chinese texts to describe the glimmering or hazy light just before full daylight. The character is classified under the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) Unified Ideographs block, which encompasses characters shared across these East Asian writing systems, though 昽 is relatively rare in modern usage. Its composition combines the sun radical with a phonetic component, reflecting a typical structure for logographic characters in this script family. Overall, U+663D serves as a specialized term in literary contexts for describing the soft illumination of dawn.

General Properties

Code Point U+663D
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 昽
HTML Hex Encoding 昽
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE6 0x98 0xBD
UTF-16 Encoding 0x663D
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000663D
C/C++/Java Escape \u663d

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 283978
kCangjie AIKP
kCantonese lung4
kDefinition vague, dim; twilight
kFourCornerCode 6301.4
kGB8 9228
kHanYu 21499.080
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 21499.080
kIRGKangXi 0494.181
kIRG_GSource G8-7C3C
kTGH 2013:6821
kKangXi 0494.181
kMainlandTelegraph 2570
kMandarin lóng
kPhonetic 856*
kRSUnicode 72.5
kSMSZD2003Index 291.18
kTGHZ2013 230.050:lóng
kTotalStrokes 9
kTraditionalVariant "曨" U+66E8 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 0732.080:lóng