U+66FD "曽" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
曽
U+66FD "曽" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a kanji and Chinese character that represents a variant form of the character "曾," which conveys meanings such as "once," "formerly," "ancestral," or "great-great-grandparent." In modern usage, it appears primarily in Japanese and traditional Chinese texts, often associated with family lineage terms like "曾祖父" (great-grandfather) and "曾孫" (great-grandchild). Its structure combines the radical 曰 (to say or sun) with additional strokes, and it is distinct from the more common simplified or standard forms found in different East Asian writing systems, reflecting historical orthographic variation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+66FD |
| 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 | 曽 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 曽 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0x9B 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x66FD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000066FD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u66fd |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCangjie | XCWA |
| kCantonese | zang1 |
| kDefinition | already; sign of past |
| kEACC | 4B4358 |
| kFourCornerCode | 8060.6 |
| kHanYu | 21514.061 |
| kIICore | AJ |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21514.061 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0503.021 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-3C33 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-413E |
| kIRG_MSource | MD-66FD |
| kJapanese | ソウ ソ かつて |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kJapaneseKun | KATTE SUNAWACHI |
| kJapaneseOn | ZO SOU SO |
| kJis0 | 3330 |
| kKangXi | 0503.021 |
| kMandarin | cēng |
| kMojiJoho | MJ013500 |
| kMorohashi | H244 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2752+72.4.7 C+2752+73.4.7 |
| kRSUnicode | 72.7 |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | J |