U+6656 "晖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+6656 "晖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that primarily means "sunshine," "radiance," or "bright light," often connoting the warm, luminous glow of the sun. It is composed of the radical for "sun" (日) on the left side, which suggests its solar association, and a phonetic component on the right. In standard Mandarin Chinese, it is pronounced as "huī" and appears in classical and modern texts, frequently in contexts related to sunlight, brilliance, or metaphorical enlightenment. This character is commonly used in compound words like "春晖" (chūnhuī), meaning "spring sunshine," which symbolizes maternal love or warm care in Chinese culture, and "余晖" (yúhuī), meaning "afterglow." As part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs, it is shared across multiple East Asian writing systems, though its usage and pronunciation may vary slightly between languages.

General Properties

Code Point U+6656
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 晖
HTML Hex Encoding 晖
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE6 0x99 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding 0x6656
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00006656
C/C++/Java Escape \u6656

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 274340
kCangjie XABKQ
kCantonese fai1
kDefinition sunshine; light, bright, radiant
kEACC 274340
kFourCornerCode 6705
kGB0 7445
kHanYu 21509.081
kIICore CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 21509.081
kIRGKangXi 0495.241
kIRG_GSource G0-6A4D
kTGH 2013:6991
kKangXi 0495.241
kMainlandTelegraph 2547
kMandarin huī
kRSUnicode 72.6
kSMSZD2003Index 292.13
kTGHZ2013 147.160:huī
kTotalStrokes 10
kTraditionalVariant "暉" U+6689 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 0499.010:huī