U+6BA4 "殤" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+6BA4 "殤" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily conveys the concept of an early or untimely death, often referring to someone who dies young, before reaching adulthood, or before fulfilling their natural lifespan. In classical and modern Chinese literature, it carries a poignant and sorrowful connotation, frequently used in contexts of mourning or lamenting a life cut short. The character is composed of the radical for "death" or "ruin" (歹) combined with a phonetic component, and it appears in various East Asian languages including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, where it retains similar meanings related to premature demise.
General Properties
Code Point
U+6BA4
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
殤
HTML Hex Encoding
殤
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE6 0xAE 0xA4
UTF-16 Encoding
0x6BA4
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00006BA4
C/C++/Java Escape
\u6ba4
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Han
Unihan Properties
kBigFive
BCDC
kCCCII
214635
kCNS1986
1-6D46
kCNS1992
1-6D46
kCangjie
MNOAH
kCantonese
soeng1
kCihaiT
742.304
kDaeJaweon
0975.380
kDefinition
die young; national mourning
kEACC
214635
kFanqie
式羊
kFenn
238H
kFennIndex
437.04
kFourCornerCode
1822.7
kGB1
7368
kGSR
0720k'
kHangul
상:1N
kHanYu
21393.070
kHanyuPinyin
21393.070:shāng
kHKGlyph
2068
kIICore
ATHM
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
21393.070
kIRG_GSource
G1-6964
kIRG_HSource
HB1-BCDC
kIRG_JSource
J0-5D4F
kIRG_KPSource
KP1-4F84
kIRG_KSource
K1-6379
kIRG_TSource
T1-6D46
kJapanese
ショウ
kKoreanName
2015
kJapaneseKun
WAKAJINI
kJapaneseOn
SHOU
kJis0
6147
kKangXi
0583.060
kKorean
SANG
kMandarin
shāng
kMatthews
5667
kMeyerWempe
2672a
kMojiJoho
MJ014889
kMorohashi
16557
kPhonetic
1163
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+5358+78.4.11
kRSUnicode
78.11
kSBGY
172.26
kSimplifiedVariant
kSMSZD2003Index
346.01
kSMSZD2003Readings
shāng粵soeng1
kTaiwanTelegraph
2999
kTotalStrokes
15
kUnihanCore2020
HJMT
kXerox
270:276
kXHC1983
1002.021:shāng