U+4E4B "之" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

之

U+4E4B "之" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a highly versatile and common Chinese character that functions primarily as a possessive or modifying particle, similar to the apostrophe-s in English to indicate "of" or "belonging to." Originating from ancient Chinese script, where it pictorially represented a foot stepping forward, it is a fundamental component of classical and modern written Chinese, appearing in a vast number of compounds and literary expressions across East Asian languages like Japanese and Korean hanja. Despite its deceptively simple form, "之" carries nuanced grammatical roles, often linking nouns or serving as a pronoun, and is frequently encountered in idioms, poetry, and formal texts, embodying a key element of syntactic structure in the written language.

General Properties

Code Point	U+4E4B
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	之
HTML Hex Encoding	之
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE4 0xB9 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding	0x4E4B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00004E4B
C/C++/Java Escape	\u4e4b

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

kBigFive	A4A7
kCCCII	21303D
kCNS1986	1-4466
kCNS1992	1-4466
kCangjie	INO
kCantonese	zi1
kCihaiT	47.202
kCowles	204
kDefinition	marks preceding phrase as modifier of following phrase; it, him her, them; go to
kEACC	21303D
kFanqie	止而
kFenn	299C
kFennIndex	66.06
kFourCornerCode	3030.7
kGB0	5414
kGB1	5414
kGradeLevel	2
kGSR	0962a
kHangul	지:0E
kHanYu	10043.010
kHanyuPinlu	zhī(2282)
kHanyuPinyin	10043.010:zhī,zhū,zhì
kHKGlyph	0028
kIICore	AGTJHKMP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10043.010
kIRGKangXi	0082.040
kIRG_GSource	G0-562E
kIRG_HSource	HB1-A4A7
kIRG_JSource	J0-4737
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-EACF
kIRG_KSource	K0-717D
kIRG_TSource	T1-4466
kIRG_VSource	V1-4A3F
kJapanese	シのこれゆくおいてこの
kJinmeiyoKanji	2010
kKoreanEducationHanja	2007
kTGH	2013:58
kJapaneseKun	YUKU KORE NO
kJapaneseOn	SHI
kJis0	3923
kKangXi	0082.040
kKorean	CI
kLau	1423
kMainlandTelegraph	0037
kMandarin	zhī
kMatthews	935
kMeyerWempe	229
kMojiJoho	MJ006384
kMorohashi	00125
kNelson	0280
kPhonetic	127 135 213
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+3309+3.1.2 C+3309+4.1.2
kRSUnicode	4.3
kSBGY	058.42
kSMSZD2003Index	8.03 6.18
kSMSZD2003Readings	zhī粵zi1
kTaiwanTelegraph	0037
kTang	*jiə jiə
kTGHZ2013	474.090:zhī
kTotalStrokes	3
kUnihanCore2020	GHJKMPT
kVietnamese	chi
kXerox	241:142
kXHC1983	1478.080:zhī