U+6B59 "歙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

歙

U+6B59 "歙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means to suck in, inhale, or draw in the breath, and it also carries the extended sense of to gather or to collect. Historically, it is notably recognized as the name of an ancient region in the Huizhou area of Anhui province, China, and it appears in classical texts such as the Shuowen Jiezi, where it is defined with the concept of inhaling or converging. This character is formed with the radical 欠 (qiàn, meaning "to yawn" or "lack") on the right and a phonetic component on the left, reflecting both its meaning related to breathing and its pronunciation. Today, it remains in limited but meaningful use in written Chinese, particularly in historical and literary contexts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+6B59
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	歙
HTML Hex Encoding	歙
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE6 0xAD 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding	0x6B59
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00006B59
C/C++/Java Escape	\u6b59

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	BEF9
kCCCII	21457D
kCNS1986	1-7124
kCNS1992	1-7124
kCangjie	OMNO
kCantonese	kap1
kCihaiT	732.102
kDaeJaweon	0960.170
kDefinition	to suck; a county's name in anhui
kEACC	21457D
kFanqie	許及書涉
kFourCornerCode	8718.2
kGB0	7608
kGB1	7608
kGSR	0675s
kHangul	흡:1N
kHanYu	32151.110
kHanyuPinyin	32151.110:xī,shè,xié
kIICore	AGT
kIRGDaeJaweon	0960.170
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	32151.110
kIRGKangXi	0572.180
kIRG_GSource	G0-6C28
kIRG_HSource	HB1-BEF9
kIRG_JSource	J0-5D40
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-4EEB
kIRG_KSource	K1-7532
kIRG_TSource	T1-7124
kJapanese	キュウキョウコウショウすう
kKoreanName	2015
kTGH	2013:6135
kJapaneseKun	SUU
kJapaneseOn	KYUU SHOU KYOU
kJis0	6132
kKangXi	0572.180
kKarlgren	128
kKorean	HUP
kMainlandTelegraph	2965
kMandarin	shè
kMatthews	2476
kMojiJoho	MJ014813 MJ014813:E0101 MJ014814:E0102
kMorohashi	16204 16204:E0101
kPhonetic	1497
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+5343+76.4.12
kRSUnicode	76.12
kSBGY	533.27 538.45
kSMSZD2003Index	342.05
kSMSZD2003Readings	xī粵kap1 shè粵sip3
kTaiwanTelegraph	2965
kTGHZ2013	329.140:shè
kTotalStrokes	16
kUnihanCore2020	GHJMT
kXerox	267:100
kXHC1983	1014.030:shè 1231.090:xī