U+4E61 "乡" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
乡
U+4E61 "乡" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character representing the concept of "village" or "countryside," and it serves as a simplified form of the traditional character "鄉." In modern Chinese, it is commonly used to denote a rural settlement or native place, as seen in words like "家乡" (hometown) and "乡村" (village). Its structure originates from ancient pictographs, where it depicted a shared table or gathering of people, symbolizing a communal living space. As part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block, this character is used across multiple East Asian languages, including Japanese and Korean, where it can carry similar meanings related to rural areas or districts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+4E61 |
| 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 | 乡 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 乡 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE4 0xB9 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x4E61 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00004E61 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u4e61 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 275C70 |
| kCangjie | VVH |
| kCantonese | hoeng1 |
| kDefinition | country; rural; village |
| kEACC | 275C70 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2020 |
| kGB0 | 4771 |
| kHanYu | 10051.050 |
| kHanyuPinlu | xiāng(433) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10051.050 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0084.051 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4F67 |
| kTGH | 2013:73 |
| kKangXi | 0084.051 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 6763 |
| kMandarin | xiāng |
| kPhonetic | 463 |
| kRSUnicode | 52.0 4.2 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 7.12 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 400.090:xiāng |
| kTotalStrokes | 3 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "鄉" U+9109 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 1257.010:xiāng |