U+4E0B "下" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

下

U+4E0B "下" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a foundational East Asian character meaning "below," "down," "under," or "to descend," with its visual form representing a short horizontal stroke above a longer line, traditionally interpreted as a marker indicating a position that is beneath a reference point. It is widely used in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems, appearing in everyday vocabulary related to directions, time (such as "next" as in 下个月 meaning next month), and actions (like 下车 meaning to get off a vehicle). As one of the most common characters in the CJK set, it traces back to ancient oracle bone script, where it was already used to denote spatial concepts, and it plays a key role in compound words spanning technology, culture, and daily life.

General Properties

Code Point	U+4E0B
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	下
HTML Hex Encoding	下
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE4 0xB8 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding	0x4E0B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00004E0B
C/C++/Java Escape	\u4e0b

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	A455
kCCCII	213025
kCNS1986	1-4436
kCNS1992	1-4436
kCangjie	MY
kCantonese	haa6
kCihaiT	28.101
kCowles	906 908
kDaeJaweon	0147.010
kDefinition	under, underneath, below; down; inferior; bring down
kEACC	213025
kFanqie	胡雅胡駕
kFenn	119A
kFennIndex	164.14 165.01
kFourCornerCode	1023.0
kGB0	4734
kGB1	4734
kGradeLevel	1
kGSR	0035a
kHangul	하:0E
kHanYu	10007.010
kHanyuPinlu	xià(6430) xia(249)
kHanyuPinyin	10007.010:xià
kHKGlyph	0005
kIICore	AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	0147.010
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10007.010
kIRGKangXi	0076.100
kIRG_GSource	G0-4F42
kIRG_HSource	HB1-A455
kIRG_JSource	J0-323C
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-F2BA
kIRG_KSource	K0-793B
kIRG_TSource	T1-4436
kIRG_VSource	V1-4A28
kJapanese	カゲアしたしももとさげるさがるくだるくだすくださるおろすおりる
kJoyoKanji	2010
kKoreanEducationHanja	2007
kTGH	2013:30
kJapaneseKun	SHITA SHIMO MOTO
kJapaneseOn	KA GE
kJis0	1828
kKangXi	0076.100
kKarlgren	134
kKorean	HA
kLau	1083
kMainlandTelegraph	0007
kMandarin	xià
kMatthews	2520
kMeyerWempe	614
kMojiJoho	MJ006307
kMorohashi	00014
kNelson	0009
kPhonetic	412
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+1340+1.1.2
kRSUnicode	1.2
kSBGY	308.24 422.48
kSMSZD2003Index	2.02
kSMSZD2003Readings	xià粵haa6 xià粵haa5
kTaiwanTelegraph	0007
kTang	hà hǎ
kTGHZ2013	396.140:xià
kTotalStrokes	3
kUnihanCore2020	GHJKMPT
kVietnamese	hạ
kXerox	241:120
kXHC1983	1239.090:xià