U+668E "暎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
暎
U+668E "暎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character primarily found in historical texts, classical literature, and some East Asian proper names, where it functions as a variant of the more common character "映" meaning "to shine," "to reflect," or "to cast light upon." It is constructed from the radical 日 (sun or day) on the left and the phonetic component 央 (center or middle) on the right, though unlike its simplified counterpart, "暎" carries a more archaic or literary nuance. In modern usage, it appears mainly in calligraphy, poetry, or personal names from earlier eras, and its meaning remains closely tied to the idea of light reflecting off a surface or illuminating an object, such as sunlight sparkling on water.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+668E |
| 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 | 暎 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 暎 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0x9A 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x668E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000668E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u668e |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 22387E |
| kCNS1986 | E-415B |
| kCNS1992 | 3-415B |
| kCangjie | ATLK |
| kCantonese | jing2 |
| kCihaiT | 646.102 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0866.080 |
| kDefinition | sun beginning decline; reflect |
| kEACC | 2D4329 |
| kFanqie | 於敬 |
| kFenn | 483G |
| kFennIndex | 635.02 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6403.4 |
| kHangul | 영:0N |
| kHanYu | 21517.020 |
| kIICore | AJKP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0866.080 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21517.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0498.100 |
| kIRG_GSource | GKX-0498.10 |
| kIRG_HSource | H-93D1 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-5A75 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F9B3 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6732 |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-415B |
| kJapanese | エイ うつる |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | HAERU UTSURU UTSUSU |
| kJapaneseOn | EI YOU |
| kJis0 | 5885 |
| kKangXi | 0498.100 |
| kKarlgren | 284 |
| kKorean | YENG |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 2527 |
| kMandarin | yìng |
| kMatthews | 7488 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ013341 MJ013341:E0101 MJ013342:E0102 MJ013343:E0103 |
| kMorohashi | 14048:E0102 |
| kPhonetic | 1582 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+5114+72.4.8 |
| kRSUnicode | 72.9 |
| kSBGY | 428.52 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+6620<kMatthews |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 295.01 |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKP |
| kXerox | 324:137 |
| kXHC1983 | 1390.020:yìng |