U+66C2 "曂" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+66C2 "曂" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and archaic Chinese character that primarily relates to brightness, light, or the radiance of the sun, as suggested by its component "日" (sun) and its phonetic element "黃". Historically attested in classical Chinese texts and lexicons such as the Kangxi Dictionary, it is not commonly used in modern standard Mandarin or any major present-day writing system. Instead, it serves as a historical and typographic artifact, preserved in the Unicode standard to support the digitization of ancient literature and specialized scholarly work, where it maintains its specific meaning of luminous or bright intensity.

General Properties

Code Point U+66C2
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 曂
HTML Hex Encoding 曂
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE6 0x9B 0x82
UTF-16 Encoding 0x66C2
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000066C2
C/C++/Java Escape \u66c2

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 243E22
kCangjie ATLC
kCantonese wong6
kDaeJaweon 0870.040
kHanYu 21535.060
kHanyuPinyin 21535.060:huàng
kIRGDaeJaweon 0870.040
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 21535.060
kIRGKangXi 0500.060
kIRG_GSource GE-3B7C
kIRG_JSource J1-4260
kIRG_TSource T4-5050
kJapanese コウ オウ
kJapaneseKun AKIRAKA
kJapaneseOn KOU OU
kJis1 3464
kKangXi 0500.060
kMandarin huàng
kMojiJoho MJ013416
kMorohashi 14167
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+21723+72.4.12 C+21723+201.12.4
kRSUnicode 72.12
kTotalStrokes 15