U+4E57 "乗" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

乗

U+4E57 "乗" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that originally derives from the ancient form meaning "to ride" or "to mount," and it is widely used in modern Japanese and Korean as well as in traditional Chinese contexts. In Japanese, it is a common kanji appearing in words such as "乗車" (jōsha, meaning boarding a vehicle) and "乗算" (jōzan, meaning multiplication), while in Korean it functions as "seung" and appears in terms like "승차" (seungcha) for riding. Historically, the character evolved from a pictograph of a person climbing onto a tree or platform, symbolizing ascent or conveyance. Its structure combines the radical "丿" with components suggesting movement and elevation, and it remains a core element in East Asian writing systems for expressing concepts of travel, mathematics, and hierarchy.

General Properties

Code Point	U+4E57
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	乗
HTML Hex Encoding	乗
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE4 0xB9 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding	0x4E57
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00004E57
C/C++/Java Escape	\u4e57

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	2D3045
kCNS1986	E-2B22
kCNS1992	3-2B22
kCangjie	HDT
kCantonese	sing4
kDaeJaweon	0166.300
kDefinition	ride, ascend; avail oneself of; numerary adjunct for vehicles
kEACC	2D3045
kFanqie	食陵實證
kFourCornerCode	2090.4
kHanYu	10039.080
kIICore	AJ
kIRGDaeJaweon	0166.300
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10039.080
kIRGKangXi	0083.081
kIRG_GSource	GE-3031
kIRG_JSource	J0-3E68
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-3445
kIRG_KSource	K2-2138
kIRG_TSource	T3-2B22
kJapanese	ジョウショウのるのせる
kJoyoKanji	2010
kJapaneseKun	NORU NOSERU
kJapaneseOn	JOU SHOU
kJis0	3072
kKangXi	0083.081
kKorean	SUNG
kMandarin	chéng
kMojiJoho	MJ006398
kMorohashi	00153
kNelson	0223 0225
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+2512+4.1.8
kRSUnicode	4.8
kSBGY	199.31 432.48
kTang	jhiəng
kTotalStrokes	9
kUnihanCore2020	J