U+6B74 "歴" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+6B74 "歴" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that is also used in Japanese kanji and Korean hanja, where it primarily conveys the meaning of "history" or "passage of time," often functioning in compounds related to chronology, experience, or succession. In its structure, the character combines the "stop" radical (止) on the left with the "forest" or "grove" radical (林) on the right, though its etymological roots trace back to meanings involving passing through or covering a series of steps. It is frequently encountered in words such as "歴史" (rekishi, meaning "history") in Japanese and "歷史" (lìshǐ) in Chinese, and it also appears in terms like "経歴" (keireki, meaning "career" or "personal history"). The glyph is standardized across East Asian writing systems, though its stroke order and precise form may vary slightly between Chinese simplified, traditional, and Japanese scripts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+6B74
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	歴
HTML Hex Encoding	歴
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE6 0xAD 0xB4
UTF-16 Encoding	0x6B74
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00006B74
C/C++/Java Escape	\u6b74

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

kCNS1986	E-4753
kCNS1992	3-4753
kCangjie	MDYLM
kCantonese	lik6
kCowles	2333
kDefinition	take place, past, history
kEACC	4B462A
kFourCornerCode	7121.1
kGradeLevel	4
kHanYu	21444.070
kIICore	AJ
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	21444.070
kIRGKangXi	0577.081
kIRG_GSource	GE-3E53
kIRG_HSource	H-FD66
kIRG_JSource	J0-4E72
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-4F1D
kIRG_TSource	T3-4753
kJapanese	レキ リャク へる
kJoyoKanji	2010
kJapaneseKun	HERU
kJapaneseOn	REKI RYAKU
kJis0	4682
kKangXi	0577.081
kMandarin	lì
kMeyerWempe	1554
kMojiJoho	MJ014845
kMorohashi	16334'
kNelson	0819 0835 0837
kPhonetic	803
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+4026+27.2.12 C+4026+77.4.10
kRSUnicode	77.10
kSemanticVariant	U+66C6<kMeyerWempe U+6B77<kMeyerWempe
kTotalStrokes	14
kUnihanCore2020	HJ