U+9633 "阳" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+9633 "阳" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily represents the concept of "sun," "sunlight," or "positive" in a broad sense, and it is a core component in East Asian languages including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. In Chinese philosophy and traditional cosmology, it denotes the masculine, bright, and active principle of yang, which is one half of the dualistic yin-yang system, symbolizing warmth, light, and the south-facing side of a hill. This character is commonly used in everyday writing to form words such as "太阳" meaning "sun," "阳光" meaning "sunlight," and in place names like "洛阳," and it serves as a radical or semantic component in other related characters, reflecting its deep cultural and linguistic significance across East Asia.

General Properties

Code Point U+9633
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 阳
HTML Hex Encoding 阳
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0x98 0xB3
UTF-16 Encoding 0x9633
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00009633
C/C++/Java Escape \u9633

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

kCCCII 234A26
kCNS1986 E-273D
kCNS1992 3-273D
kCangjie NLA
kCantonese joeng4
kDaeJaweon 1849.010
kDefinition 'male' principle; light; sun
kEACC 275F2E
kFennIndex 615.01
kFourCornerCode 7620
kGB0 4984
kHanYu 64117.060
kHanyuPinlu yáng(513)
kIICore AG
kIRGDaeJaweon 1849.010
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 64117.060
kIRGKangXi 1347.070
kIRG_GSource G0-5174
kIRG_HSource H-9A57
kIRG_JSource J14-7B5F
kIRG_KPSource KP1-82F1
kIRG_TSource T3-273D
kJapanese ヨウ
kTGH 2013:572
kJIS0213 2,91,63
kJapaneseKun HI
kJapaneseOn YOU
kJis1 7044
kKangXi 1347.070
kMainlandTelegraph 7122
kMandarin yáng
kMatthews 7265
kMojiJoho MJ027552
kMorohashi 41578
kPhonetic 1529
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+18888+72.4.3 C+18888+170.3.4
kRSUnicode 170.4
kSemanticVariant U+6C1C<kFenn U+967D<kMatthews
kSMSZD2003Index 749.14
kTGHZ2013 425.090:yáng
kTotalStrokes 6
kTraditionalVariant "陽" U+967D CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 GH
kXHC1983 1335.060:yáng