U+66CC "曌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+66CC "曌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and historically significant Chinese character composed of the radicals for sun and moon above the character for sky or void, symbolizing brightness and illumination. It was invented by the only female emperor in Chinese history, Wu Zetian of the Tang Dynasty, as part of her set of twelve new characters intended to assert her political authority and divine mandate. The character is most famously associated with her self-coined name, Wu Zhao, where "曌" represents her vision of ruling with the clarity of the sun and moon shining over the heavens. Though largely obsolete outside of historical and cultural contexts, it remains a powerful emblem of imperial innovation and feminine sovereignty in Chinese linguistic heritage.

General Properties

Code Point	U+66CC
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	曌
HTML Hex Encoding	曌
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE6 0x9B 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding	0x66CC
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000066CC
C/C++/Java Escape	\u66cc

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

kBigFive	E9BC
kCCCII	243E2B
kCNS1986	2-5747
kCNS1992	2-5747
kCangjie	ABJCM
kCantonese	ziu3
kCihaiT	647.507
kDefinition	Wǔ Zétiān (a self-coined name)
kFourCornerCode	6710.1
kGB3	4016
kHanYu	21537.010
kHanyuPinyin	21537.010:zhào
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	21537.010
kIRGKangXi	0500.251
kIRG_GSource	G3-4830
kIRG_HSource	HB2-E9BC
kIRG_JSource	J1-4263
kIRG_KSource	K2-3939
kIRG_TSource	T2-5747
kJapanese	ショウ
kTGH	2013:7860
kJapaneseKun	TEERU TEERASU TEERERU
kJapaneseOn	SHOU
kJis1	3467
kKangXi	0500.251
kMandarin	zhào
kMojiJoho	MJ013429
kMorohashi	14186
kPhonetic	525
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+21725+48.3.13 C+21725+72.4.12
kRSUnicode	72.12
kSMSZD2003Index	296.04
kSMSZD2003Readings	zhào粵ziu3
kTGHZ2013	469.030:zhào
kTotalStrokes	16
kUnihanCore2020	GHMT
kXHC1983	1462.010:zhào