U+8679 "虹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
虹
U+8679 "虹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "rainbow" in both traditional and simplified Chinese, as well as in Japanese and Korean contexts. This ideograph combines the radical for "insect" or "reptile" with a phonetic component, reflecting an ancient belief that a rainbow was a huge, multi colored serpent or dragon bridging the heavens and the earth. In modern usage, the character appears in words for "rainbow" across East Asian languages, such as "hóng" in Mandarin, "niji" in Japanese, and "hong" in Korean, and it also carries symbolic meanings of hope, connection, and beauty due to the natural phenomenon it represents.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8679 |
| 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 | 虹 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 虹 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x99 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8679 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008679 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8679 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | AD69 |
| kCCCII | 21564F |
| kCNS1986 | 1-534C |
| kCNS1992 | 1-534C |
| kCangjie | LIM |
| kCantonese | hung4 |
| kCihaiT | 1186.302 |
| kCowles | 1237 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1545.230 |
| kDefinition | rainbow |
| kEACC | 21564F |
| kFanqie | 戶公 古送 古巷 |
| kFenn | 8E |
| kFennIndex | 46.03 213.01 242.09 |
| kFourCornerCode | 5111.0 |
| kGB0 | 2671 |
| kGB1 | 2671 |
| kGradeLevel | 3 |
| kGSR | 1172j |
| kHangul | 홍:0N |
| kHanYu | 42834.080 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 42834.080:hóng,hòng,gòng |
| kHKGlyph | 3587 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1545.230 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42834.080 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1076.400 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3A67 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-AD69 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-467A |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F4D1 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-7B76 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-534C |
| kJapanese | コウ ゴウ グ にじ |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:1497 |
| kJapaneseKun | NIJI |
| kJapaneseOn | KOU |
| kJis0 | 3890 |
| kKangXi | 1076.400 |
| kKarlgren | 469 |
| kKorean | HONG KANG |
| kLau | 1261 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5725 |
| kMandarin | hóng |
| kMatthews | 2384 |
| kMeyerWempe | 833 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ023327 |
| kMorohashi | 32830 |
| kNelson | 4118 |
| kPhonetic | 684 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+3282+48.3.6 C+3282+142.6.3 |
| kRSUnicode | 142.3 |
| kSBGY | 030.38 342.09 345.31 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 608.13 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | hóng粵hung4 jiàng粵hung4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5725 |
| kTang | gàng gùng hung |
| kTGHZ2013 | 138.020:hóng 167.150:jiàng |
| kTotalStrokes | 9 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kXerox | 256:106 |
| kXHC1983 | 0462.020:hóng 0562.040:jiàng |