U+66D2 "曒" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+66D2 "曒" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and archaic Chinese character, classified under the Kangxi radical 72 (日, meaning "sun"). Historically, it is a variant form of the character 皎 (jiǎo), which describes the bright, clear, and pure light of the moon, and by extension, it can also signify clarity or brilliance. While it appears in classical Chinese literature and historical dictionaries, it is no longer in common modern usage, having been largely supplanted by its more standard counterpart. Its current primary function is within digital text encoding, where it serves as a historical and linguistic reference preserved in the Unicode standard for rendering specialized or ancient texts.

General Properties

Code Point U+66D2
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 曒
HTML Hex Encoding 曒
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE6 0x9B 0x92
UTF-16 Encoding 0x66D2
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000066D2
C/C++/Java Escape \u66d2

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 ECF2
kCCCII 22396A
kCNS1986 2-5C7D
kCNS1992 2-5C7D
kCangjie AHSK
kCantonese giu2
kDaeJaweon 0870.230
kDefinition bright; clear appearance
kFourCornerCode 6804.0
kGB3 4020
kHanYu 21538.140
kHanyuPinyin 21538.140:jiǎo
kIRGDaeJaweon 0870.230
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 21538.140
kIRGKangXi 0500.320
kIRG_GSource G3-4834
kIRG_HSource HB2-ECF2
kIRG_JSource JMJ-013439
kIRG_KPSource KP1-49F3
kIRG_KSource K2-393D
kIRG_TSource T2-5C7D
kJapanese キョウ コウ ゴウ
kKangXi 0500.320
kMandarin jiǎo
kMojiJoho MJ013439
kMorohashi 14200
kPhonetic 635*
kRSUnicode 72.13
kTotalStrokes 17
kUnihanCore2020 HMT