U+689F "梟" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
梟
U+689F "梟" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character traditionally representing the concept of an owl, often specifically associated with the mythological or inauspicious owl seen as an omen in ancient East Asian culture. It also carries the extended meanings of "to expose heads in public" as a form of punishment, or "to be fierce and uncanny," due to the bird's nocturnal and predatory nature. Structurally, the character combines the "bird" radical (鳥) with a simplified phonetic or semantic element, and it is most commonly encountered in historical texts, literary contexts, or modern terms referring to owl species or figurative expressions of harshness.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+689F |
| 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 | 梟 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 梟 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0xA2 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x689F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000689F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u689f |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B1FA |
| kCCCII | 214468 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5B40 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5B40 |
| kCangjie | HAYD |
| kCantonese | hiu1 |
| kCihaiT | 700.501 |
| kCowles | 1092 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0918.010 |
| kDefinition | an owl; thus, something evil |
| kEACC | 214468 |
| kFanqie | 古堯 |
| kFenn | 253G |
| kFennIndex | 171.03 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2790.4 |
| kGB1 | 7241 |
| kGSR | 1070m |
| kHangul | 효:0N |
| kHanYu | 21217.110 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 21217.110:xiāo |
| kHKGlyph | 1933 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0918.010 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21217.110 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0529.160 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-6849 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B1FA |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-5B66 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F4DA |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-7C7C |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5B40 |
| kJapanese | キョウ ふくろう |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | FUKUROU |
| kJapaneseOn | KYOU |
| kJis0 | 5970 |
| kKangXi | 0529.160 |
| kKorean | HYO |
| kMandarin | xiāo |
| kMatthews | 2589 |
| kMeyerWempe | 736d |
| kMojiJoho | MJ013993 MJ013993:E0101 MJ013994:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 14861 14861:E0101 |
| kNelson | 0235 |
| kPhonetic | 479 932 982 1505 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+5193+75.4.7 |
| kRSUnicode | 75.7 |
| kSBGY | 145.20 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+9D1E<kFenn |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "枭" U+67AD CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 318.06 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | xiāo粵hiu1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 2743 |
| kTang | keu |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kXerox | 270:136 |
| kXHC1983 | 1265.011:xiāo |