U+6B23 "欣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
欣
U+6B23 "欣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "joy," "delight," or "to be happy," and it is commonly used in both classical and modern East Asian languages, including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Composed of the radical 欠 (qiàn, meaning "to yawn" or "deficient") and the phonetic component 斤 (jīn, meaning "axe"), the character evokes the idea of being so pleased that one exhales or sighs with contentment. It appears frequently in compound words such as 欣赏 (xīnshǎng, "to appreciate") and 欣喜 (xīnxǐ, "joyful"), and it holds cultural significance in contexts like personal names, poetry, and expressions of celebration or gratitude.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+6B23 |
| 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 | 欣 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 欣 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0xAC 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x6B23 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00006B23 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u6b23 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | AA59 |
| kCCCII | 214574 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4E3C |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4E3C |
| kCangjie | HLNO |
| kCantonese | jan1 |
| kCihaiT | 729.301 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0954.160 |
| kDefinition | happy, joyous, delighted |
| kEACC | 214574 |
| kFanqie | 許斤 |
| kFenn | 209D |
| kFennIndex | 182.05 |
| kFourCornerCode | 7728.2 |
| kGB0 | 4832 |
| kGB1 | 4832 |
| kGradeLevel | 3 |
| kGSR | 0443i |
| kHangul | 흔:0N |
| kHanYu | 32135.120 |
| kHanyuPinlu | xīn(63) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 32135.120:xīn |
| kHKGlyph | 2037 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0954.160 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 32135.120 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0566.040 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5040 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-AA59 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3655 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F5AA |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-7D5B |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4E3C |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-5B26 |
| kJapanese | キン ゴン コン よろこぶ |
| kJinmeiyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:1158 |
| kJapaneseKun | YOROKOBU |
| kJapaneseOn | GON KIN KON |
| kJis0 | 2253 |
| kKangXi | 0566.040 |
| kKarlgren | 155 |
| kKorean | HUN |
| kLau | 3321 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 2946 |
| kMandarin | xīn |
| kMatthews | 2727 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3819a |
| kMojiJoho | MJ014750 |
| kMorohashi | 16008 |
| kNelson | 2077 |
| kPhonetic | 571 1481 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1741+69.4.4 C+1741+76.4.4 |
| kRSUnicode | 76.4 |
| kSBGY | 112.15 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+5FFB<kLau,kMatthews,kMeyerWempe |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 340.06 283.06 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | xīn粵jan1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 2946 |
| kTang | xiən |
| kTGHZ2013 | 407.060:xīn |
| kTotalStrokes | 8 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | hân |
| kXerox | 254:041 |
| kXHC1983 | 1284.050:xīn |