U+4E24 "两" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
两
U+4E24 "两" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "two" or "both," often used as a measure word or quantifier in contexts involving pairs or groups of two, such as in 两个 (two units) or 两年 (two years). In traditional Chinese culture, it also historically referred to a unit of weight called the tael, approximately 50 grams, and appears in compound words like 两边 (both sides) or 两岸 (both shores). Its structure combines the radical for "one" and "person" with internal elements, reflecting a semantic link to duality and balance, and it is widely used in written Chinese across simplified and traditional scripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+4E24 |
| 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 | 两 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 两 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE4 0xB8 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x4E24 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00004E24 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u4e24 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 273323 |
| kCNS1986 | E-243F |
| kCNS1992 | 3-243F |
| kCangjie | MOOB |
| kCantonese | loeng5 |
| kCihaiT | 37.203 |
| kCowles | 2322 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0157.210 |
| kDefinition | two, both, pair, couple; ounce |
| kEACC | 273323 |
| kFennIndex | 301.05 |
| kFourCornerCode | 1022 |
| kGB0 | 3329 |
| kHanYu | 10021.020 |
| kHanyuPinlu | liǎng(3229) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0157.210 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10021.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0078.131 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-413D |
| kIRG_HSource | H-89CE |
| kIRG_JSource | J1-3028 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-3418 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-2127 |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-243F |
| kJapanese | リョウ |
| kTGH | 2013:697 |
| kJapaneseKun | FUTATSU |
| kJapaneseOn | RYOU |
| kJis1 | 1608 |
| kKangXi | 0078.131 |
| kKorean | LYANG |
| kLau | 1872 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0357 |
| kMandarin | liǎng |
| kMatthews | 3953 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1547 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ006339 |
| kMorohashi | 00051 |
| kOtherNumeric | 2 |
| kPhonetic | 799 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+19142+1.1.6 |
| kRSUnicode | 1.6 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+4E21<kFenn U+5169<kLau,kMatthews,kMeyerWempe |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "两" U+4E24 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 4.16 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 221.080:liǎng |
| kTotalStrokes | 7 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "两" U+4E24 CJK Unified Ideograph-# "兩" U+5169 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GH |
| kXHC1983 | 0707.060:liǎng |