U+6668 "晨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
晨
U+6668 "晨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that means "morning" or "dawn" and is composed of the radical for "sun" above the radical for "plough" or "agriculture," symbolizing the early time of day when the sun rises over the fields. It is used in various East Asian languages that employ Chinese characters, including Mandarin, Japanese, and Korean, where it appears in words related to morning activities, such as "早晨" (zǎochen, early morning) in Chinese and "朝晨" (chōshin) in Japanese. The character carries cultural connotations of new beginnings, freshness, and the start of daily labor, reflecting its agrarian origins in ancient Chinese writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+6668 |
| 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 | 晨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 晨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0x99 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x6668 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00006668 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u6668 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B1E1 |
| kCCCII | 214334 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5B27 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5B27 |
| kCangjie | AMMV |
| kCantonese | san4 |
| kCihaiT | 641.601 |
| kCowles | 3837 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0862.160 |
| kDefinition | early morning, daybreak |
| kEACC | 214334 |
| kFanqie | 植鄰 食鄰 |
| kFenn | 355A |
| kFennIndex | 26.04 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6023.2 |
| kGB0 | 1931 |
| kGB1 | 1931 |
| kGradeLevel | 1 |
| kGSR | 0455h |
| kHangul | 신:0E |
| kHanYu | 21512.030 |
| kHanyuPinlu | chen(124) chén(28) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 21512.030:chén |
| kHKGlyph | 1786 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0862.160 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21512.030 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0496.120 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-333F |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B1E1 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-5A6F |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E5CE |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6367 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5B27 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-585E |
| kJapanese | シン ジン あした とき |
| kJinmeiyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:2260 |
| kJapaneseKun | ASHITA TOKI |
| kJapaneseOn | SHIN |
| kJis0 | 5879 |
| kKangXi | 0496.120 |
| kKorean | SIN |
| kLau | 2662 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 2525 |
| kMandarin | chén |
| kMatthews | 338 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2633 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ013300 |
| kMorohashi | 13962 |
| kNelson | 2133 |
| kPhonetic | 1129 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+5108+72.4.7 C+5108+161.7.4 |
| kRSUnicode | 72.7 |
| kSBGY | 102.09 102.25 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 293.08 691.10 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | chén粵san4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 2525 |
| kTang | *jhin zhin |
| kTGHZ2013 | 042.060:chén |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | thần |
| kXerox | 245:245 |
| kXHC1983 | 0132.050:chén |