U+6B97 "殗" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

殗

U+6B97 "殗" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare Chinese character (Hànzì) that historically carries meanings related to death, illness, or decay, specifically denoting the state of being sick or diseased to the point of vomiting blood, or alternatively, the concept of dying from a prolonged illness. Its structure combines the radical “歹” (meaning “death” or “decay”) with a phonetic component “奄” (yǎn, implying covering or declining), which together evoke a sense of physical deterioration or terminal decline. This character appears in classical Chinese texts, particularly in medical or historical writings describing fatal ailments, but it is seldom used in modern Mandarin or Japanese, making it an obscure glyph preserved mainly for scholarly or lexicographic reference. The character is classified under the CJK Unified Ideographs block, designed to encode characters shared across Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages.

General Properties

Code Point	U+6B97
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	殗
HTML Hex Encoding	殗
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE6 0xAE 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding	0x6B97
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00006B97
C/C++/Java Escape	\u6b97

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

kBigFive	D9DF
kCCCII	224523
kCNS1986	2-3D24
kCNS1992	2-3D24
kCangjie	MNKLU
kCantonese	jip3
kCihaiT	742.101
kDaeJaweon	0974.050
kDefinition	sickness; repeated
kFanqie	於業
kFourCornerCode	1421.6
kGB3	3702
kHanYu	21389.030
kHanyuPinyin	21389.030:yè,yàn,yān
kIRGDaeJaweon	0974.050
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	21389.030
kIRGKangXi	0581.360
kIRG_GSource	G3-4522
kIRG_HSource	HB2-D9DF
kIRG_JSource	J1-4624
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-4F6B
kIRG_KSource	K2-3E62
kIRG_TSource	T2-3D24
kJapanese	ヨウエン
kJapaneseKun	YAMU
kJapaneseOn	YOU OU EN
kJis1	3804
kKangXi	0581.360
kMandarin	yè
kMatthews	3046
kMojiJoho	MJ014878
kMorohashi	16505
kPhonetic	1562*
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+21827+78.4.8
kRSUnicode	78.8
kSBGY	546.02
kTotalStrokes	12
kUnihanCore2020	HMT