U+6B37 "欷" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+6B37 "欷" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily conveys the meaning of sobbing or sighing, often expressing a sense of sorrow, grief, or lamentation. It is composed of the radical for "lack" or "yawn" combined with a phonetic component, and it appears in classical and modern Chinese texts to describe the act of breathing heavily while weeping. The character is also found in Japanese kanji as a component in literary or historical contexts, retaining similar connotations of emotional distress.

General Properties

Code Point U+6B37
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 欷
HTML Hex Encoding 欷
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE6 0xAC 0xB7
UTF-16 Encoding 0x6B37
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00006B37
C/C++/Java Escape \u6b37

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 D5D8
kCCCII 22442C
kCNS1986 2-363C
kCNS1992 2-363C
kCangjie KBNO
kCantonese hei1
kCihaiT 729.501
kDaeJaweon 0956.170
kDefinition sob; sigh
kEACC 22442C
kFanqie 香衣 許旣
kFourCornerCode 4728.2
kGB0 7604
kGB1 7604
kGSR 0549d
kHangul 희:1N
kHanYu 32140.060
kHanyuPinyin 32140.060:xī
kIICore CT
kIRGDaeJaweon 0956.170
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 32140.060
kIRGKangXi 0568.040
kIRG_GSource G0-6C24
kIRG_HSource HB2-D5D8
kIRG_JSource J0-5D38
kIRG_KPSource KP1-4EA8
kIRG_KSource K1-753B
kIRG_TSource T2-363C
kJapanese キ ケ すすりなく なげく
kKoreanName 2015
kJapaneseKun NAGEKU
kJapaneseOn KI
kJis0 6124
kKangXi 0568.040
kKarlgren 127
kKorean HUY
kMainlandTelegraph 2950
kMandarin
kMatthews 2419
kMeyerWempe 694i
kMojiJoho MJ014772
kMorohashi 16087
kNelson 2416
kPhonetic 451
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+5335+76.4.7
kRSUnicode 76.7
kSBGY 065.49 361.20
kSMSZD2003Index 340.13
kSMSZD2003Readings xī粵hei1
kTaiwanTelegraph 2950
kTotalStrokes 11
kUnihanCore2020 GHJMT
kXerox 274:344
kXHC1983 1231.010:xī