U+6B89 "殉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
殉
U+6B89 "殉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily used in East Asian languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, where it conveys the concept of dying or sacrificing one's life for a cause, duty, or principle, often associated with martyrdom or loyalty. In historical contexts, it frequently refers to the practice of being buried alive with a deceased ruler or noble, known as "殉葬" (xùnzàng), or to dying for a belief, such as in "殉国" (xùnguó) meaning to die for one's country. Its radical is 歹 (death or decay), and it consists of 10 strokes, reflecting its grave and solemn connotations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+6B89 |
| 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 | 殉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 殉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0xAE 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x6B89 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00006B89 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u6b89 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | AEEE |
| kCCCII | 214632 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5632 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5632 |
| kCangjie | MNPA |
| kCantonese | seon1 |
| kCihaiT | 741.501 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0972.300 |
| kDefinition | die for cause, be martyr for |
| kEACC | 214632 |
| kFanqie | 辭閏 |
| kFenn | 230F |
| kFennIndex | 196.12 |
| kFourCornerCode | 1722.0 |
| kGB0 | 4919 |
| kGB1 | 4919 |
| kGSR | 0392g |
| kHangul | 순:0E |
| kHanYu | 21386.060 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 21386.060:xùn |
| kHKGlyph | 2065 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0972.300 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21386.060 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0580.220 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5133 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-AEEE |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3D5E |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E4CD |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6266 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5632 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-5B3E |
| kJapanese | ジュン シュン エン したがう |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:1873 |
| kJapaneseKun | SHITAGAU |
| kJapaneseOn | JUN |
| kJis0 | 2962 |
| kKangXi | 0580.220 |
| kKorean | SWUN |
| kLau | 2959 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 2991 |
| kMandarin | xùn |
| kMatthews | 2920 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2882h |
| kMojiJoho | MJ014865 |
| kMorohashi | 16448 |
| kNelson | 2444 |
| kPhonetic | 318 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2408+78.4.6 |
| kRSUnicode | 78.6 |
| kSBGY | 395.02 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+4F9A<kMatthews U+72E5<kMatthews,kMeyerWempe |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 345.05 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | xùn粵seon1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 2991 |
| kTang | zuìn |
| kTGHZ2013 | 418.100:xùn |
| kTotalStrokes | 10 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | tuẫn |
| kXerox | 260:077 |
| kXHC1983 | 1315.130:xùn |