U+4E09 "三" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
三
U+4E09 "三" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is the standard East Asian character representing the number three, widely used in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems. Its form consists of three horizontal strokes, reflecting its numerical meaning, and it appears in contexts ranging from everyday counting to idiomatic expressions like the Chinese "three people make a tiger" to illustrate rumor spreading. In Japanese, it is read as "san" and plays a key role in compound words such as "sanpo" for a walk, while in Korean it is read as "sam" and appears in terms like "samgak" for triangle. Across these languages, "三" serves as a foundational numeric character integrated into cultural and linguistic traditions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+4E09 |
| 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 | 三 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 三 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE4 0xB8 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x4E09 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00004E09 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u4e09 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A454 |
| kCCCII | 213024 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4435 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4435 |
| kCangjie | MMM |
| kCantonese | saam1 |
| kCihaiT | 11.201 |
| kCowles | 3572 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0138.010 |
| kDefinition | three |
| kEACC | 213024 |
| kFanqie | 蘇甘 蘇暫 |
| kFenn | 1A |
| kFennIndex | 427.04 428.05 429.01 429.04 |
| kFourCornerCode | 1010.1 |
| kGB0 | 4093 |
| kGB1 | 4093 |
| kGradeLevel | 1 |
| kGSR | 0648a |
| kHangul | 삼:0E |
| kHanYu | 10004.030 |
| kHanyuPinlu | sān(3030) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10004.030:sān |
| kHKGlyph | 0004 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0138.010 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10004.030 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0076.050 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-487D |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A454 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3B30 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E1B5 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5F32 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4435 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-4A26 |
| kJapanese | サン シン み みつ みっつ |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:22 |
| kJapaneseKun | MITSU MITABI |
| kJapaneseOn | SAN |
| kJis0 | 2716 |
| kKangXi | 0076.050 |
| kKorean | SAM |
| kLau | 2599 2600 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0005 |
| kMandarin | sān |
| kMatthews | 5415 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2528 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ006305 |
| kMorohashi | 00012 |
| kNelson | 0008 |
| kPhonetic | 1100 |
| kPrimaryNumeric | 3 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2174+1.1.2 |
| kRSUnicode | 1.2 |
| kSBGY | 224.12 443.29 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+53C1<kLau,kMatthews,kMeyerWempe |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 1.06 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | sān粵saam1 sān,sàn粵saam3 |
| kSpecializedSemanticVariant | U+53C1<kFenn |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0005 |
| kTang | *sɑm sɑm |
| kTGHZ2013 | 320.010:sān |
| kTotalStrokes | 3 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | tam |
| kXerox | 241:113 |
| kXHC1983 | 0982.010:sān |