U+6B72 "歲" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
歲
U+6B72 "歲" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that primarily means "year" or "age," and it is used in East Asian languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Its form represents a combination of semantic and phonetic components, often associated with the concept of time, passing years, or an individual's age. In classical and modern contexts, this character appears in words referring to annual cycles, harvest years, or age-related expressions, such as "歲月" (time, literally "years and months") or "萬歲" (long live, literally "ten thousand years"). It is a common character in historical texts, calendar systems, and celebratory phrases, reflecting its deep cultural significance in marking the passage of time.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+6B72 |
| 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 | 歲 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 歲 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0xAD 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x6B72 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00006B72 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u6b72 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B7B3 |
| kCCCII | 214629 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6459 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6459 |
| kCangjie | YMIHH |
| kCantonese | seoi3 |
| kCihaiT | 738.605 |
| kCowles | 3722 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0967.170 |
| kDefinition | year; age; harvest |
| kEACC | 214629 |
| kFanqie | 相銳 |
| kFenn | 132A |
| kFennIndex | 477.01 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2125.3 |
| kGB1 | 4374 |
| kGradeLevel | 1 |
| kGSR | 0346a |
| kHangul | 세:0E |
| kHanYu | 21443.200 |
| kHanyuPinlu | suì(519) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 21443.200:suì,suò |
| kHKGlyph | 2056 |
| kIICore | ATHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0967.170 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21443.200 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0577.020 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-4B6A |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B7B3 |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-014841 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E5FB |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6128 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6459 |
| kJapanese | サイ セイ サ セツ セチ とし |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kJapaneseKun | TOSHI YOWAI |
| kJapaneseOn | SEI SAI |
| kKangXi | 0577.020 |
| kKorean | SEY |
| kLau | 2938 |
| kMandarin | suì |
| kMatthews | 5538 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2870 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ014841 MJ014842:E0101 MJ014843:E0102 MJ057899:E0103 MJ014841:E0104 MJ057897:E0105 |
| kMorohashi | 16326:E0101 |
| kPhonetic | 135 1254 1279 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+13785+77.4.9 |
| kRSUnicode | 77.9 |
| kSBGY | 375.13 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+4E97<kMatthews U+5C81<kMatthews U+5D57 U+6B73<kMatthews U+21ED5<kLau,kMeyerWempe |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "岁" U+5C81 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 344.01 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | suì粵seoi3 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 2979 |
| kTang | *siuɛ̀i |
| kTotalStrokes | 13 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HKMPT |
| kXerox | 243:357 |