U+4E34 "临" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+4E34 "临" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to face," "to approach," or "to overlook," and it is commonly used in compounds such as "临时" meaning "temporary" or "临海" meaning "facing the sea." This character originates from traditional Chinese calligraphy and writing, where its structure combines the radical for "person" or "cliff" with phonetic elements, and it appears across various East Asian writing systems including Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.

General Properties

Code Point	U+4E34
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	临
HTML Hex Encoding	临
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE4 0xB8 0xB4
UTF-16 Encoding	0x4E34
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00004E34
C/C++/Java Escape	\u4e34

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	275425
kCangjie	LLOA
kCantonese	lam4
kDefinition	draw near, approach; descend
kEACC	275425
kFourCornerCode	2806
kGB0	3357
kHanYu	10030.050
kHanyuPinlu	lín(220)
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10030.050
kIRGKangXi	0080.071
kIRG_GSource	G0-4159
kTGH	2013:1471
kKangXi	0080.071
kMainlandTelegraph	5259
kMandarin	lín
kPhonetic	1021
kRSUnicode	2.8
kSMSZD2003Index	6.08
kTGHZ2013	224.190:lín
kTotalStrokes	9
kTraditionalVariant	"臨" U+81E8 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0717.030:lín