U+66DF "曟" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
曟
U+66DF "曟" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and ancient Chinese character that traditionally refers to a "morning star" or specifically the planet Venus when visible at dawn, and it is closely related to the character "晨" (chen, meaning morning or dawn). In classical Chinese texts, "曟" sometimes serves as a variant form of "晨" but carries a more poetic or astronomical nuance, emphasizing the time just before sunrise. This ideograph is composed of the radical "日" (sun, day) and a complex phonetic component, and it appears in historical dictionaries and literature, though it is seldom used in modern standard Chinese or Japanese, making it a notable but obscure entry in the Unicode CJK Unified Ideographs block.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+66DF |
| 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 | 曟 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 曟 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0x9B 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x66DF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000066DF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u66df |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 223975 |
| kCNS1986 | E-5A43 |
| kCNS1992 | 3-5A43 |
| kCangjie | AAAV |
| kCantonese | san4 |
| kCihaiT | 648.202 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0871.320 |
| kHanYu | 21541.010 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 21541.010:chén |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0871.320 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21541.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0501.230 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-3C28 |
| kIRG_JSource | J1-4268 |
| kIRG_MSource | MD-66DF |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-5A43 |
| kJapanese | シン |
| kJapaneseKun | ASHITA ASA |
| kJapaneseOn | SHIN |
| kJis1 | 3472 |
| kKangXi | 0501.230 |
| kMandarin | chén |
| kMojiJoho | MJ013458 |
| kMorohashi | 14244 |
| kPhonetic | 200* |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+21728+72.4.15 C+21728+161.7.12 |
| kRSUnicode | 72.15 |
| kTotalStrokes | 19 |