U+4E4E "乎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+4E4E "乎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily functions as a classical literary particle in written Chinese, often used to mark a question, exclamation, or pause within a sentence, similar in effect to modern punctuation like a question mark or comma. It is also used in formal or ancient texts to express doubt, emphasis, or as a preposition meaning "at," "in," or "from," depending on context. Beyond Chinese, it appears in Japanese kanji as "ko" or "ka" and in Korean hanja as "ho," where it serves similar grammatical or literary roles. Its structure consists of two strokes representing a roof or cover and a horizontal line, and it is deeply tied to Classical Chinese literature, frequently appearing in philosophical works such as the Analects of Confucius.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
乎 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
乎 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xE4 0xB9 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x4E4E |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00004E4E |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u4e4e |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive |
A547 |
| kCCCII |
213040 |
| kCNS1986 |
1-4567 |
| kCNS1992 |
1-4567 |
| kCangjie |
HFD |
| kCantonese |
fu4 |
| kCihaiT |
47.303 |
| kCowles |
831 3123 |
| kDaeJaweon |
0166.010 |
| kDefinition |
interrogative or exclamatory final particle |
| kEACC |
213040 |
| kFanqie |
戶吳 |
| kFenn |
29D |
| kFennIndex |
197.07 |
| kFourCornerCode |
2040.9 |
| kGB0 |
2685 |
| kGB1 |
2685 |
| kGSR |
0055a |
| kHangul |
호:0E |
| kHanYu |
10036.080 |
| kHanyuPinlu |
hu(304) hū(284) |
| kHanyuPinyin |
10036.080:hū |
| kHKGlyph |
0032 |
| kIICore |
AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon |
0166.010 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian |
10036.080 |
| kIRGKangXi |
0082.070 |
| kIRG_GSource |
G0-3A75 |
| kIRG_HSource |
HB1-A547 |
| kIRG_JSource |
J0-3843 |
| kIRG_KPSource |
KP0-F3F3 |
| kIRG_KSource |
K0-7B3A |
| kIRG_TSource |
T1-4567 |
| kIRG_VSource |
V1-4A41 |
| kJapanese |
コ オ ゴ を ああ か かな や よ |
| kJinmeiyoKanji |
2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja |
2007 |
| kTGH |
2013:280 |
| kJapaneseKun |
YO KANA KA |
| kJapaneseOn |
KO |
| kJis0 |
2435 |
| kKangXi |
0082.070 |
| kKarlgren |
85 |
| kKorean |
HO |
| kMainlandTelegraph |
0039 |
| kMandarin |
hū |
| kMatthews |
2154 |
| kMeyerWempe |
561 |
| kMojiJoho |
MJ006386 |
| kMorohashi |
00131 |
| kNelson |
0170 |
| kPhonetic |
389 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 |
C+1911+4.1.4 |
| kRSUnicode |
4.4 |
| kSBGY |
081.23 |
| kSMSZD2003Index |
8.12 12.05 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings |
hū粵fu4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph |
0039 |
| kTang |
ho |
| kTGHZ2013 |
139.180:hū |
| kTotalStrokes |
5 |
| kUnihanCore2020 |
GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese |
hồ |
| kXerox |
244:374 |
| kXHC1983 |
0470.080:hū |