U+4E04 "丄" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+4E04 "丄" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents the concept of "above" or "upper" and is an ancient or less common variant of the standard character 上 (shàng). Structurally, it is a simple ideograph composed of a vertical line sitting above a horizontal line, visually indicating something positioned upward or on top. In historical Chinese texts, it appears in classical writings and calligraphy, and its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures that this traditional graph can be digitally represented and exchanged across modern computing systems.

General Properties

Code Point U+4E04
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 丄
HTML Hex Encoding 丄
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE4 0xB8 0x84
UTF-16 Encoding 0x4E04
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00004E04
C/C++/Java Escape \u4e04

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 2D3026
kCNS1986 E-2126
kCNS1992 3-2126
kCangjie LM
kCantonese soeng6
kDaeJaweon 0137.020
kDefinition above
kFanqie 時掌 時亮
kHanYu 10003.010
kIRGDaeJaweon 0137.020
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10003.010
kIRGKangXi 0076.010
kIRG_GSource GE-3021
kIRG_HSource H-9EB3
kIRG_JSource J1-3022
kIRG_TSource T3-2126
kJapanese ショウ
kJapaneseKun UE KAMI
kJapaneseOn SHOU
kJis1 1602
kKangXi 0076.010
kKorean SANG
kMandarin shàng
kMojiJoho MJ006298
kMorohashi 00007
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+14296+1.1.1
kRSUnicode 1.1
kSBGY 313.18 426.02
kTotalStrokes 2
kUnihanCore2020 H
kStrange I:U+4E0A