U+6BA4 "殤" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
殤
U+6BA4 "殤" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily conveys the concept of an early or untimely death, often referring to someone who dies young, before reaching adulthood, or before fulfilling their natural lifespan. In classical and modern Chinese literature, it carries a poignant and sorrowful connotation, frequently used in contexts of mourning or lamenting a life cut short. The character is composed of the radical for "death" or "ruin" (歹) combined with a phonetic component, and it appears in various East Asian languages including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, where it retains similar meanings related to premature demise.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+6BA4 |
| 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 | 殤 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 殤 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0xAE 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x6BA4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00006BA4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u6ba4 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | BCDC |
| kCCCII | 214635 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6D46 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6D46 |
| kCangjie | MNOAH |
| kCantonese | soeng1 |
| kCihaiT | 742.304 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0975.380 |
| kDefinition | die young; national mourning |
| kEACC | 214635 |
| kFanqie | 式羊 |
| kFenn | 238H |
| kFennIndex | 437.04 |
| kFourCornerCode | 1822.7 |
| kGB1 | 7368 |
| kGSR | 0720k' |
| kHangul | 상:1N |
| kHanYu | 21393.070 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 21393.070:shāng |
| kHKGlyph | 2068 |
| kIICore | ATHM |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0975.380 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21393.070 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0583.060 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-6964 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-BCDC |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-5D4F |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-4F84 |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-6379 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6D46 |
| kJapanese | ショウ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | WAKAJINI |
| kJapaneseOn | SHOU |
| kJis0 | 6147 |
| kKangXi | 0583.060 |
| kKorean | SANG |
| kMandarin | shāng |
| kMatthews | 5667 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2672a |
| kMojiJoho | MJ014889 |
| kMorohashi | 16557 |
| kPhonetic | 1163 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+5358+78.4.11 |
| kRSUnicode | 78.11 |
| kSBGY | 172.26 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "殇" U+6B87 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 346.01 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | shāng粵soeng1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 2999 |
| kTotalStrokes | 15 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJMT |
| kXerox | 270:276 |
| kXHC1983 | 1002.021:shāng |