U+66F0 "曰" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+66F0 "曰" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that means "to say" or "to speak," and its form is distinct from the similar-looking "日" (sun) due to a wider, flatter shape. Historically, it is a common component in classical Chinese texts, often introducing direct speech or quotations in literary works. This ideograph is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified block and is used across these languages with consistent meaning. Its structure, with a wide top and bottom strokes, reflects its ancient pictographic origin as a stylized mouth emitting words.

General Properties

Code Point U+66F0
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 曰
HTML Hex Encoding 曰
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE6 0x9B 0xB0
UTF-16 Encoding 0x66F0
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000066F0
C/C++/Java Escape \u66f0

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 A4EA
kCCCII 214350
kCNS1986 1-454B
kCNS1992 1-454B
kCangjie A
kCantonese joek6
kCihaiT 648.303
kCowles 4941
kDaeJaweon 0872.300
kDefinition say; Kangxi radical 73
kEACC 214350
kFanqie 王伐
kFenn 792F
kFennIndex 654.02
kFourCornerCode 6010.0
kGB0 5227
kGB1 5227
kGSR 0304a
kHangul 왈:0E
kHanYu 21482.020
kHanyuPinlu yuē(12)
kHanyuPinyin 21482.020:yuē
kHKGlyph 1815
kIICore AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon 0872.300
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 21482.020
kIRGKangXi 0502.010
kIRG_GSource G0-543B
kIRG_HSource HB1-A4EA
kIRG_JSource J0-5B29
kIRG_KPSource KP0-FEAA
kIRG_KSource K0-6858
kIRG_TSource T1-454B
kIRG_VSource V1-5873
kJapanese エツ オチ いわく ここに のたまわく ひらび いう いはく のたまう
kKoreanEducationHanja 2007
kTGH 2013:111
kJapaneseKun IU IWAKU NOTAMAWAKU
kJapaneseOn ETSU
kJis0 5909
kKangXi 0502.010
kKorean WAL
kMainlandTelegraph 2574
kMandarin yuē
kMatthews 7694
kMeyerWempe 3682
kMojiJoho MJ013478
kMorohashi 14278
kNelson 2168
kPhonetic 1638
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+5132+73.4.0
kRSUnicode 73.0
kSBGY 478.08
kSMSZD2003Index 297.07
kSMSZD2003Readings yuē粵joek6,jyut6
kTaiwanTelegraph 2574
kTang *hiuæt
kTGHZ2013 452.140:yuē
kTotalStrokes 4
kUnihanCore2020 GHJKMPT
kVietnamese viết
kXerox 250:314
kXHC1983 1427.040:yuē