U+6BC9 "毉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+6BC9 "毉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and complex Chinese character historically used to denote a type of physician or healer, specifically one associated with shamanistic or magical medical practices in ancient texts. It combines the radical for "corpse" or "death" (殳) with components suggesting shamanic ritual and medicine, reflecting early Chinese beliefs that illness could be cured through spiritual intervention. This character appears predominantly in classical literature such as the "Zhou Li" or "Rites of Zhou," where it refers to a "shaman doctor" who treated diseases using incantations and exorcisms rather than herbal remedies. In modern usage, it is largely obsolete and considered a variant of the more common character 醫 (yī, meaning "medicine" or "doctor"), though it remains of interest to paleographers and students of ancient Chinese culture for its insight into the historical intersection of religion and healthcare.

General Properties

Code Point	U+6BC9
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	毉
HTML Hex Encoding	毉
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE6 0xAF 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding	0x6BC9
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00006BC9
C/C++/Java Escape	\u6bc9

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	EFE9
kCCCII	224557
kCNS1986	2-6175
kCNS1992	2-6175
kCangjie	SEMOO
kCantonese	ji1
kCihaiT	744.607
kDefinition	medicine; to cure, heal; physician; a black stone like jade
kFanqie	於其
kFourCornerCode	7710.8
kGB5	4884
kHanYu	32167.120
kHanyuPinyin	32167.120:yī
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	32167.120
kIRGKangXi	0588.090
kIRG_GSource	G5-5074
kIRG_HSource	HB2-EFE9
kIRG_JSource	J14-6E28
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-4FCA
kIRG_KSource	K2-3E77
kIRG_TSource	T2-6175
kJapanese	イ エイ いやす
kJIS0213	2,78,08
kJapaneseKun	ISHIYA
kJapaneseOn	I EI
kJis1	3822
kKangXi	0588.090
kMandarin	yī
kMojiJoho	MJ014933
kMorohashi	16701
kPhonetic	1534A
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+17901+48.3.15 C+17901+79.4.14
kRSUnicode	79.15
kSBGY	062.42
kSMSZD2003Index	348.05
kSpecializedSemanticVariant	U+747F<kHanYu:TZ U+91AB<kHanYu:TZ
kTotalStrokes	18
kUnihanCore2020	HMT
kXHC1983	1359.052:yī