U+6642 "時" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

時
Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+6642 "時" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese and Japanese character meaning "time," "hour," or "season," derived from the radical for "sun" or "day" combined with a phonetic element indicating measurement. It is a fundamental logograph used in East Asian writing systems, appearing in vocabulary related to chronology, schedules, and temporal concepts across Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, and Korean languages. Historically, its structure reflects ancient Chinese oracle bone script, where the sun’s position symbolized the passage of time, and it remains a common character in modern text, appearing in words like "時刻" (moment) or "時代" (era).

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General Properties

Code Point
U+6642
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
時
HTML Hex Encoding
時
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE6 0x99 0x82
UTF-16 Encoding
0x6642
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00006642
C/C++/Java Escape
\u6642

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
AEC9
kCCCII
21432D
kCNS1986
1-556B
kCNS1992
1-556B
kCangjie
AGDI
kCantonese
si4
kCihaiT
639.304
kCowles
3905
kDaeJaweon
0859.150
kDefinition
time, season; era, age, period
kEACC
21432D
kFanqie
市之
kFenn
46A
kFennIndex
450.08 451.01
kFourCornerCode
6404.1
kGB1
4217
kGradeLevel
1
kGSR
0961z
kHangul
시:0E
kHanYu
21505.050
kHanyuPinlu
shí(6805)
kHanyuPinyin
21505.050:shí
kHKGlyph
1780
kIICore
ATJHKMP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
21505.050
kIRG_GSource
G1-4A31
kIRG_HSource
HB1-AEC9
kIRG_JSource
J0-3B7E
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-E5A8
kIRG_KSource
K0-6341
kIRG_TSource
T1-556B
kIRG_VSource
V1-5859
kJapanese
ジ シ とき これ ときに
kJoyoKanji
2010
kKoreanEducationHanja
2007
kJapaneseKun
TOKI KORE
kJapaneseOn
JI SHI
kJis0
2794
kKangXi
0494.220
kKorean
SI
kLau
2766
kMandarin
shí
kMatthews
5780
kMeyerWempe
2687
kMojiJoho
MJ013259
kMorohashi
13890
kNelson
2126
kPhonetic
149 1178
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+2252+72.4.6
kRSUnicode
72.6
kSBGY
059.18
kSemanticVariant
U+65F6<kFenn U+65F9<kLau,kMatthews
kSimplifiedVariant
"时" U+65F6 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index
292.02
kSMSZD2003Readings
shí粵si4
kTaiwanTelegraph
2514
kTang
*zhiə
kTotalStrokes
10
kUnihanCore2020
HJKMPT
kVietnamese
thì
kXerox
241:077
kXHC1983
1041.061:shí