U+6B87 "殇" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
殇
U+6B87 "殇" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily conveys the concept of an untimely or premature death, often referring to someone who dies young or before reaching adulthood, and it carries a deeply poignant and sorrowful connotation in classical and modern Chinese literature. In historical and cultural contexts, it is frequently used in elegies, tomb inscriptions, and poetic works to lament a life cut short, evoking a sense of tragic loss and mourning. The character combines the radical for "bone" or "skeleton" with a phonetic component, visually and semantically linking it to mortality and the physical remains of the deceased.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+6B87 |
| 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 | 殇 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 殇 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0xAE 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x6B87 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00006B87 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u6b87 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 274635 |
| kCangjie | MNONH |
| kCantonese | soeng1 |
| kDefinition | die young; national mourning |
| kEACC | 274635 |
| kFourCornerCode | 1822 |
| kGB0 | 7368 |
| kHanYu | 21383.220 |
| kIICore | CG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21383.220 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0580.081 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-6964 |
| kTGH | 2013:4175 |
| kKangXi | 0580.081 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 2999 |
| kMandarin | shāng |
| kRSUnicode | 78.5 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 345.04 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 325.190:shāng |
| kTotalStrokes | 9 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "殤" U+6BA4 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 1002.020:shāng |