U+66D6 "曖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+66D6 "曖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that is also used in Japanese and Korean, where it is primarily associated with the meanings of "dark," "not clear," or "ambiguous." In Japanese, it is notably used in the word "aimai" (曖昧), meaning vague or ambiguous, a concept important in cultural and linguistic contexts. The character is composed of the "sun" or "day" radical (日) on the left, suggesting a connection to light or time, and a phonetic component on the right, though its overall meaning leans toward obscurity rather than clarity. Historically, it appears in classical Chinese texts and has been encoded as a unified ideograph in the Unicode standard to represent its shared form across East Asian writing systems.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
曖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
曖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xE6 0x9B 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x66D6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x000066D6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u66d6 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive |
C0C7 |
| kCCCII |
21434B |
| kCNS1986 |
1-7370 |
| kCNS1992 |
1-7370 |
| kCangjie |
ABBE |
| kCantonese |
oi3 |
| kCihaiT |
647.601 |
| kDaeJaweon |
0871.040 |
| kDefinition |
obscure, dim, ambiguous, vague |
| kEACC |
21434B |
| kFanqie |
於蓋 烏代 |
| kFourCornerCode |
6204.7 |
| kGB1 |
7451 |
| kGSR |
0508b |
| kHangul |
애:0N |
| kHanYu |
21538.170 |
| kHanyuPinyin |
21538.170:ài |
| kHKGlyph |
1810 |
| kIICore |
ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon |
0871.040 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian |
21538.170 |
| kIRGKangXi |
0500.380 |
| kIRG_GSource |
G1-6A53 |
| kIRG_HSource |
HB1-C0C7 |
| kIRG_JSource |
J0-5B23 |
| kIRG_KPSource |
KP0-FCF2 |
| kIRG_KSource |
K0-6472 |
| kIRG_TSource |
T1-7370 |
| kIRG_VSource |
V1-5870 |
| kJapanese |
アイ くらい |
| kJoyoKanji |
2010 |
| kKoreanName |
2015 |
| kJapaneseKun |
KURAI |
| kJapaneseOn |
AI |
| kJis0 |
5903 |
| kKangXi |
0500.380 |
| kKorean |
AY |
| kMandarin |
ài |
| kMatthews |
12 |
| kMeyerWempe |
2146b |
| kMojiJoho |
MJ013444 MJ013444:E0101 MJ013443:E0102 |
| kMorohashi |
14206:E0102 |
| kNelson |
2161 |
| kPhonetic |
994 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 |
C+5126+72.4.13 |
| kRSUnicode |
72.13 |
| kSBGY |
390.38 |
| kSemanticVariant |
U+77B9<kMeyerWempe |
| kSimplifiedVariant |
"暧" U+66A7 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index |
296.07 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings |
ài粵oi3 ài粵oi2 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph |
8524 |
| kTotalStrokes |
17 |
| kUnihanCore2020 |
HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese |
áy |
| kXerox |
276:107 |
| kXHC1983 |
0005.051:ài |