U+4E46 "乆" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+4E46 "乆" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare or archaic Chinese character historically used as a variant form of the more common character "久" (jiǔ), which means "long time" or "duration." In ancient texts, it occasionally appeared as a shorthand or scribal variant, but it is not widely used in modern Chinese, Japanese, or Korean writing systems. Its structure consists of a single radical and a simple stroke composition, encoding a minor but recognized alternative within the broader CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) ideograph set, primarily preserved for historical linguistic research and digital representation of classical literature.

General Properties

Code Point	U+4E46
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	乆
HTML Hex Encoding	乆
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE4 0xB9 0x86
UTF-16 Encoding	0x4E46
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00004E46
C/C++/Java Escape	\u4e46

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	2D303B
kCNS1986	E-2130
kCNS1992	3-2130
kCangjie	VO
kCantonese	gau2
kDefinition	long time (ago); time passage, grow late
kHanYu	10051.020
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10051.020
kIRGKangXi	0082.010
kIRG_GSource	GE-302E
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-006380
kIRG_TSource	T3-2130
kJapanese	キュウ ひさしい
kJapaneseKun	HISASHII
kJapaneseOn	KYUU KU
kKangXi	0082.010
kKorean	KWU
kMandarin	jiǔ
kMojiJoho	MJ006380
kMorohashi	00119
kPhonetic	1444
kRSUnicode	4.2
kTang	gioǔ
kTotalStrokes	3