U+4E45 "久" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
久
U+4E45 "久" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily conveys the concept of time, meaning "long" or "lasting," as in duration or eternity. It is commonly used in words such as 久遠 (jiǔyuǎn) meaning "eternity" or "long ago," and 不久 (bùjiǔ) meaning "soon" or "not long after." In traditional Chinese and Japanese scripts, this character appears in everyday language as well as in philosophical or poetic contexts to express the passage or endurance of time. Its structure consists of a single slanted stroke across the top, which is a distinctive and simple graphical form in the CJK Unified Ideographs block.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+4E45 |
| 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 | 久 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 久 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE4 0xB9 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x4E45 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00004E45 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u4e45 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A45B |
| kCCCII | 21303B |
| kCNS1986 | 1-443C |
| kCNS1992 | 1-443C |
| kCangjie | NO |
| kCantonese | gau2 |
| kCihaiT | 47.102 |
| kCowles | 1575 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0165.060 |
| kDefinition | long time (ago); time passage, grow late |
| kEACC | 21303B |
| kFanqie | 舉有 |
| kFenn | 430B |
| kFennIndex | 84.09 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2780.0 |
| kGB0 | 3035 |
| kGB1 | 3035 |
| kGradeLevel | 2 |
| kGSR | 0993a |
| kHangul | 구:0E |
| kHanYu | 10033.030 |
| kHanyuPinlu | jiǔ(467) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10033.030:jiǔ |
| kHKGlyph | 0027 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0165.060 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10033.030 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0081.190 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3E43 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A45B |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3557 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-D0E0 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-4E79 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-443C |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-4A3E |
| kJapanese | キュウ ク ひさしい |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:47 |
| kJapaneseKun | HISASHII |
| kJapaneseOn | KYUU KU |
| kJis0 | 2155 |
| kKangXi | 0081.190 |
| kKarlgren | 401 |
| kKorean | KWU |
| kLau | 865 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0036 |
| kMandarin | jiǔ |
| kMatthews | 1188 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1070 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ006378 MJ006378:E0101 MJ006379:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 00118:E0102 |
| kNelson | 0153 |
| kPhonetic | 586 587 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1649+4.1.2 |
| kRSUnicode | 4.2 |
| kSBGY | 322.17 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 7.09 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | jiǔ粵gau2 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0036 |
| kTang | *gioǔ gioǔ |
| kTGHZ2013 | 182.070:jiǔ |
| kTotalStrokes | 3 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | cửu |
| kXerox | 243:272 |
| kXHC1983 | 0606.040:jiǔ |