U+6B6F "歯" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+6B6F "歯" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used in modern Japanese to represent the word "tooth" or "teeth," and it is a simplified variant of the traditional Chinese character "齒" (U+9F52) while also being distinct from the simplified Chinese character "齿" (U+9F7F). In Japanese, it is commonly read as "ha" in native readings or "shi" in on'yomi derived from Chinese. This character appears in everyday vocabulary such as "haguki" for "gums" and "ha" for "tooth." Its structure visually depicts a mouth containing teeth, reflecting its original pictographic roots, and it holds cultural significance in idioms and phrases related to dentistry, aging, and strength.

General Properties

Code Point	U+6B6F
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	歯
HTML Hex Encoding	歯
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE6 0xAD 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding	0x6B6F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00006B6F
C/C++/Java Escape	\u6b6f

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

kCCCII	336321
kCNS1986	E-3C47
kCNS1992	3-3C47
kCangjie	YMUFD
kCantonese	ci2
kDaeJaweon	0967.140
kDefinition	teeth; gears, cogs; age; a form of Kangxi radical 211
kEACC	336321
kFourCornerCode	2177.2
kHanYu	21443.160
kIICore	AJ
kIRGDaeJaweon	0967.140
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	21443.160
kIRGKangXi	0576.421
kIRG_GSource	GE-3E51
kIRG_HSource	H-8BF7
kIRG_JSource	J0-3B75
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-4F17
kIRG_KSource	K2-3E53
kIRG_TSource	T3-3C47
kJapanese	シ ショウ は よわい よわいする
kJoyoKanji	2010
kJapaneseKun	HA YOWAI YOWAISURU
kJapaneseOn	SHI
kJis0	2785
kKangXi	0576.421
kKorean	CHI
kMandarin	chǐ
kMojiJoho	MJ014837 MJ014837:E0101 MJ059281:E0102
kMorohashi	16323 16323:E0101
kNelson	5428
kPhonetic	157*
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+2243+77.4.8 C+2243+211.12.0
kRSUnicode	77.8 211''.0
kTotalStrokes	12
kUnihanCore2020	HJ