U+4E48 "么" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
么
U+4E48 "么" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily functions as a question particle or suffix in modern Mandarin, often pronounced as "me" or "ma" and used to form interrogative words such as "什么" (shénme, meaning "what") or "这么" (zhème, meaning "so" or "such"). It also appears in traditional and simplified Chinese texts, where it can serve as a phonetic component in compound characters or as a colloquial variant of the older character "麼" (meaning "tiny" or "insignificant" in classical usage). Historically, this ideograph is classified under the radical 丿 (piě, meaning "slash") and contains two strokes, reflecting its simple structure.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+4E48 |
| 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 | 么 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 么 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE4 0xB9 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x4E48 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00004E48 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u4e48 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A45C |
| kCCCII | 21303C |
| kCNS1986 | 1-443D |
| kCNS1992 | 1-443D |
| kCangjie | HI |
| kCantonese | maa1 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0165.090 |
| kDefinition | interrogative particle; small |
| kEACC | 276260 |
| kFennIndex | 616.07 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2073.2 |
| kGB0 | 3520 |
| kGB1 | 8765 |
| kHanYu | 10033.020 |
| kHanyuPinlu | me(8053) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10033.020:yāo,mó,ma,me |
| kIICore | AGT |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0165.090 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10033.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0082.030 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4334 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A45C |
| kIRG_JSource | J4-212A |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-343A |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-2133 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-443D |
| kJapanese | ヨウ |
| kTGH | 2013:48 |
| kJIS0213 | 2,01,10 |
| kJapaneseOn | EU |
| kKangXi | 0082.030 |
| kKorean | YO |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 8010 |
| kMandarin | me |
| kMatthews | 7282 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ006382 |
| kMorohashi | 00121 |
| kPhonetic | 862 920 1595 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+14126+4.1.2 C+14126+52.3.0 |
| kRSUnicode | 4.2 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+5E7A<kMatthews |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "么" U+4E48 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 7.10 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 8026 |
| kTang | qeu |
| kTGHZ2013 | 245.150:me |
| kTotalStrokes | 3 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "么" U+4E48 CJK Unified Ideograph-# "幺" U+5E7A CJK Unified Ideograph-# "麼" U+9EBC CJK Unified Ideograph-# "麽" U+9EBD CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHMT |
| kXerox | 323:304 |
| kXHC1983 | 0758.081,0758.091:ma 0770.150:me 1340.041:yāo |