U+6642 "時" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
時
U+6642 "時" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese and Japanese character meaning "time," "hour," or "season," derived from the radical for "sun" or "day" combined with a phonetic element indicating measurement. It is a fundamental logograph used in East Asian writing systems, appearing in vocabulary related to chronology, schedules, and temporal concepts across Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, and Korean languages. Historically, its structure reflects ancient Chinese oracle bone script, where the sun’s position symbolized the passage of time, and it remains a common character in modern text, appearing in words like "時刻" (moment) or "時代" (era).
General Properties
| Code Point | U+6642 |
| 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 | 時 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 時 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0x99 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x6642 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00006642 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u6642 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | AEC9 |
| kCCCII | 21432D |
| kCNS1986 | 1-556B |
| kCNS1992 | 1-556B |
| kCangjie | AGDI |
| kCantonese | si4 |
| kCihaiT | 639.304 |
| kCowles | 3905 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0859.150 |
| kDefinition | time, season; era, age, period |
| kEACC | 21432D |
| kFanqie | 市之 |
| kFenn | 46A |
| kFennIndex | 450.08 451.01 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6404.1 |
| kGB1 | 4217 |
| kGradeLevel | 1 |
| kGSR | 0961z |
| kHangul | 시:0E |
| kHanYu | 21505.050 |
| kHanyuPinlu | shí(6805) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 21505.050:shí |
| kHKGlyph | 1780 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0859.150 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21505.050 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0494.220 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-4A31 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-AEC9 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3B7E |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E5A8 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6341 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-556B |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-5859 |
| kJapanese | ジ シ とき これ ときに |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kJapaneseKun | TOKI KORE |
| kJapaneseOn | JI SHI |
| kJis0 | 2794 |
| kKangXi | 0494.220 |
| kKorean | SI |
| kLau | 2766 |
| kMandarin | shí |
| kMatthews | 5780 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2687 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ013259 |
| kMorohashi | 13890 |
| kNelson | 2126 |
| kPhonetic | 149 1178 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2252+72.4.6 |
| kRSUnicode | 72.6 |
| kSBGY | 059.18 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+65F6<kFenn U+65F9<kLau,kMatthews |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "时" U+65F6 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 292.02 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | shí粵si4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 2514 |
| kTang | *zhiə |
| kTotalStrokes | 10 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | thì |
| kXerox | 241:077 |
| kXHC1983 | 1041.061:shí |