U+9668 "陨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
陨
U+9668 "陨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means to fall from a height, to collapse, or to perish, and is often used in the context of meteorites (as in "陨石" for meteorite) or in classical or literary phrases describing a downfall or ruin. Its composition typically features the radical for "hill" or "mound" on the left, combined with a phonetic component indicating its pronunciation, and it belongs to the set of CJK Unified Ideographs used in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean scripts. In historical and modern usage, this character conveys a sense of physical descent or figurative decline, such as the fall of a dynasty or a celestial object.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9668 |
| 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 | 陨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 陨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0x99 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9668 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009668 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9668 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 2D5F35 |
| kCangjie | NLRBO |
| kCantonese | wan5 |
| kDefinition | fall, slip; let fall; die |
| kEACC | 455F35 |
| kFourCornerCode | 7628 |
| kGB0 | 5241 |
| kHanYu | 64131.070 |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 64131.070 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1352.141 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5449 |
| kTGH | 2013:1731 |
| kKangXi | 1352.141 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 7134 |
| kMandarin | yǔn |
| kRSUnicode | 170.7 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 752.03 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 454.230:yǔn |
| kTotalStrokes | 9 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "隕" U+9695 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 1432.160:yǔn |