U+6681 "暁" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+6681 "暁" CJK Unified Ideograph is a Chinese character (Hanzi) that also appears in Japanese (as a simplified form of the traditional character 曉) and Korean Hanja, primarily meaning "dawn," "daybreak," or "to know/understand" in a classical sense. It is composed of the radical 日 (sun/day) on the left and the phonetic component 堯 (yao, meaning "high" or "lofty") on the right, reflecting its connection to the sun rising at dawn. In modern Japanese, it is a common character used in names and words like 暁 (akatsuki) for "dawn," as well as in compounds such as 暁星 (gyōsei, "morning star") or 暁光 (gyōkō, "daylight"). This character belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block in Unicode, encoded specifically as a simplified variant distinct from its traditional counterpart U+66C9 "曉."