U+6B73 "歳" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
歳
U+6B73 "歳" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Han character used in written Japanese and Chinese, where it primarily means "year" or "age." In Japanese, it is commonly employed in contexts such as counting years of age, as in the phrase "juu-hassai" (18 years old), and it also appears in compound words like "saijitsu" (birthday) or "bansai" (literally "ten thousand years," a cheer). While its Chinese counterpart, 岁 (suì), is more standard in modern Simplified Chinese, the traditional form 歳 retains its usage in Classical texts and Japanese orthography. Visually, the character combines elements suggesting a footstep or passage of time, reflecting its etymological roots in the concept of a yearly cycle.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+6B73 |
| 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 | 歳 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 歳 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0xAD 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x6B73 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00006B73 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u6b73 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCNS1986 | E-4221 |
| kCNS1992 | 3-4221 |
| kCangjie | YMIHF |
| kCantonese | seoi3 |
| kDefinition | year; age; harvest |
| kFourCornerCode | 2125.3 |
| kHanYu | 21443.201 |
| kIICore | AJ |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21443.201 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0577.071 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-3E52 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3A50 |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-4221 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-5B38 |
| kJapanese | サイ セイ セツ サ とし |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kJapaneseKun | TOSHI YOWAI |
| kJapaneseOn | SEI SAI |
| kJis0 | 2648 |
| kKangXi | 0577.071 |
| kKorean | SEY |
| kMandarin | suì |
| kMatthews | 5538 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ014844 MJ014844:E0101 MJ059760:E0103 |
| kMorohashi | 16326' 16326':E0101 |
| kNelson | 2434 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2112+77.4.9 |
| kRSUnicode | 77.9 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+6B72<kMatthews |
| kTotalStrokes | 13 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | J |
| kVietnamese | tuế |
| kXHC1983 | 1101.033:suì |