U+6BA6 "殦" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
殦
U+6BA6 "殦" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and ancient Chinese character that falls under the radical for "death" or "decay" (歹). Its traditional meaning is associated with a type of bird, specifically an owl or a similar nocturnal bird of prey, and it is sometimes used to convey the idea of a bird that cries or shrieks ominously. In classical texts, this character appears infrequently, primarily in literary or poetic contexts that describe ill omens or haunting sounds. Due to its obscurity, "殦" is not commonly used in modern standard Chinese or Japanese, but it remains encoded in the Unicode standard for the preservation of historical and specialized writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+6BA6 |
| 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 | 殦 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 殦 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0xAE 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x6BA6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00006BA6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u6ba6 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | E5F4 |
| kCCCII | 244778 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-513D |
| kCNS1992 | 2-513D |
| kCangjie | MNHAF |
| kCantonese | diu1 |
| kFourCornerCode | 1722.7 |
| kHanYu | 21393.080 74618.100 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 21393.080,74618.100:diāo |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21393.080 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0583.141 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-3E5C |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-E5F4 |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-014891 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-513D |
| kJapanese | チョウ |
| kKangXi | 0583.141 |
| kMandarin | diāo |
| kMojiJoho | MJ014891 |
| kMorohashi | 16567 |
| kRSUnicode | 78.11 |
| kTotalStrokes | 15 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |