U+6681 "暁" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

暁

U+6681 "暁" CJK Unified Ideograph is a Chinese character (Hanzi) that also appears in Japanese (as a simplified form of the traditional character 曉) and Korean Hanja, primarily meaning "dawn," "daybreak," or "to know/understand" in a classical sense. It is composed of the radical 日 (sun/day) on the left and the phonetic component 堯 (yao, meaning "high" or "lofty") on the right, reflecting its connection to the sun rising at dawn. In modern Japanese, it is a common character used in names and words like 暁 (akatsuki) for "dawn," as well as in compounds such as 暁星 (gyōsei, "morning star") or 暁光 (gyōkō, "daylight"). This character belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block in Unicode, encoded specifically as a simplified variant distinct from its traditional counterpart U+66C9 "曉."

General Properties

Code Point	U+6681
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	暁
HTML Hex Encoding	暁
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE6 0x9A 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding	0x6681
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00006681
C/C++/Java Escape	\u6681

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	2D4348
kCNS1986	E-3C24
kCNS1992	3-3C24
kCangjie	AJTU
kCantonese	hiu2
kDefinition	dawn, daybreak; clear, explicit
kEACC	2D4348
kFourCornerCode	6401.1
kHanYu	21516.011
kIICore	AJ
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	21516.011
kIRGKangXi	0497.311
kIRG_GSource	GE-3B70
kIRG_JSource	J0-3647
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-4997
kIRG_KSource	K2-387A
kIRG_MSource	MD-6681
kIRG_TSource	T3-3C24
kJapanese	ギョウキョウあかつきさとる
kJoyoKanji	2010
kJapaneseKun	AKATSUKI SATORU
kJapaneseOn	GYOU KYOU
kJis0	2239
kKangXi	0497.311
kKorean	HYO
kMandarin	xiǎo
kMojiJoho	MJ013329 MJ013329:E0102 MJ013330:E0103
kMorohashi	14031 14031:E0102
kNelson	2139 2148 2158
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+1727+72.4.8 V+13728+72.4.8
kRSUnicode	72.8
kTotalStrokes	12
kUnihanCore2020	J