U+6653 "晓" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
晓
U+6653 "晓" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "dawn," "daybreak," or "to know" and "to understand," carrying connotations of clarity and the start of a new day. It is composed of the radical for "sun" (日) on the left side, which suggests brightness or time, and a phonetic component on the right that contributes to its pronunciation, typically as "xiao" in Mandarin. Commonly used in classical and modern Chinese, the character appears in words like "知晓" (to know) and "破晓" (to break dawn), and it also forms part of personal names, often symbolizing enlightenment or a fresh beginning.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+6653 |
| 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 | 晓 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 晓 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0x99 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x6653 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00006653 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u6653 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 274348 |
| kCangjie | APHU |
| kCantonese | hiu2 |
| kDefinition | dawn, daybreak; clear, explicit |
| kEACC | 274348 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6501 |
| kGB0 | 4794 |
| kHanYu | 21507.010 |
| kHanyuPinlu | xiǎo(83) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21507.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0495.241 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4F7E |
| kIRG_HSource | H-8DAF |
| kTGH | 2013:1889 |
| kKangXi | 0495.241 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 2556 |
| kMandarin | xiǎo |
| kPhonetic | 1598* |
| kRSUnicode | 72.6 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 292.11 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 403.180:xiǎo |
| kTotalStrokes | 10 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "曉" U+66C9 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GH |
| kXHC1983 | 1271.020:xiǎo |