U+4E4C "乌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+4E4C "乌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "crow" or "raven," and it also carries the broader connotations of "black" or "dark," often used in classical and modern Chinese literature to describe the color of objects or the appearance of dark clouds. Its simplified form, as opposed to the traditional character "烏," consists of fewer strokes and is widely used in Simplified Chinese writing. In addition to its literal meaning, "乌" appears in various compound words and phrases, such as "乌鸦" (crow) and "乌云" (dark cloud), and it is also a component in the name of the Wū (乌) River in China. The character’s structure, featuring a pictographic element suggesting a bird, reflects its ancient origins in Chinese script evolution.

General Properties

Code Point U+4E4C
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 乌
HTML Hex Encoding 乌
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE4 0xB9 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding 0x4E4C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00004E4C
C/C++/Java Escape \u4e4c

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 27495D
kCangjie PVSM
kCantonese wu1
kDefinition crow, rook, raven; black, dark
kEACC 27495D
kFourCornerCode 2712
kGB0 4658
kHanYu 10034.100
kHanyuPinlu wū(69)
kIICore AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10034.100
kIRGKangXi 0082.051
kIRG_GSource G0-4E5A
kTGH 2013:157
kKangXi 0082.051
kMainlandTelegraph 3527
kMandarin
kPhonetic 982
kRSUnicode 4.3
kSMSZD2003Index 8.04
kTGHZ2013 387.180:wū
kTotalStrokes 4
kTraditionalVariant "烏" U+70CF CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 1211.030:wū 1225.010:wù