U+66CF "曏" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
曏
U+66CF "曏" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that originally conveyed meanings related to direction, orientation, or a former state, often associated with the concept of "formerly" or "toward." It is composed of the radical "日" (sun, day) over a complex phonetic and semantic component, reflecting its historical use in classical Chinese texts to denote temporal or spatial orientation, such as "hitherto" or "in the past." While it is not commonly used in modern standard Mandarin, it appears in literary or historical contexts, and its structure offers insight into the evolution of ideographic writing in East Asian scripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+66CF |
| 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 | 曏 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 曏 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0x9B 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x66CF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000066CF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u66cf |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kAlternateTotalStrokes | 17:J |
| kBigFive | E9B8 |
| kCCCII | 223960 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-5743 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-5743 |
| kCangjie | AVHL |
| kCantonese | hoeng2 |
| kCihaiT | 647.508 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0870.180 |
| kDefinition | once upon time; period of time |
| kEACC | 223960 |
| kFanqie | 許兩 書兩 式亮 許亮 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6022.7 |
| kGSR | 0714k |
| kHanYu | 21534.210 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 21534.210:xiàng,shǎng |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0870.180 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21534.210 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0500.270 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-3C21 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-E9B8 |
| kIRG_JSource | J1-4265 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-49F6 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-393B |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-5743 |
| kJapanese | コウ キョウ ショウ さきに |
| kJapaneseKun | SAKINI |
| kJapaneseOn | KYOU KOU SHOU |
| kJis1 | 3469 |
| kKangXi | 0500.270 |
| kMandarin | xiǎng |
| kMatthews | 2557 |
| kMeyerWempe | 713a |
| kMojiJoho | MJ013432 MJ013432:E0101 MJ013433:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 14195 14195:E0101 |
| kPhonetic | 463 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+19441+72.4.13 |
| kRSUnicode | 72.13 |
| kSBGY | 311.46 312.22 425.07 425.30 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "向" U+5411 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 296.06 296.09 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 2561 |
| kTotalStrokes | 15 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |
| kXerox | 303:260 |
| kXHC1983 | 1259.041:xiǎng |