U+4E8B "事" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

事

U+4E8B "事" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a widely used East Asian character meaning "matter," "affair," "thing," or "event" in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. In Chinese, it is pronounced as "shi" and appears in common phrases such as "事情" (shìqing) for "matter" or "business," and "事件" (shìjiàn) for "incident" or "event." In Japanese, it is read as "koto" or "ji" and is essential in words like "仕事" (shigoto, meaning "work") and "事故" (jiko, meaning "accident"). The character is composed of the radical "丨" (a vertical line) and other components, with its original form depicting a hand holding a writing tool, symbolizing the concept of recording or managing affairs. It is categorized under the Unicode CJK Unified Ideographs block and carries the hexadecimal code point 4E8B.

General Properties

Code Point	U+4E8B
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	事
HTML Hex Encoding	事
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE4 0xBA 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding	0x4E8B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00004E8B
C/C++/Java Escape	\u4e8b

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	A8C6
kCCCII	213050
kCNS1986	1-4B67
kCNS1992	1-4B67
kCangjie	JLLN
kCantonese	si6
kCihaiT	58.302
kCowles	3776
kDaeJaweon	0174.150
kDefinition	affair, matter, business; to serve; accident, incident
kEACC	213050
kFanqie	側吏鉏吏
kFenn	667A
kFennIndex	454.01
kFourCornerCode	5000.7
kGB0	4234
kGB1	4234
kGradeLevel	1
kGSR	0971a
kHangul	사:0E
kHanYu	10023.030
kHanyuPinlu	shì(3356) shi(210)
kHanyuPinyin	10023.030:shì,zì
kHKGlyph	0047
kIICore	AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	0174.150
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10023.030
kIRGKangXi	0085.240
kIRG_GSource	G0-4A42
kIRG_HSource	HB1-A8C6
kIRG_JSource	J0-3B76
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-E0C6
kIRG_KSource	K0-5E40
kIRG_TSource	T1-4B67
kIRG_VSource	V1-4A4F
kJapanese	ジズシことつかうつかえる
kJoyoKanji	2010
kKoreanEducationHanja	2007
kTGH	2013:1038
kJapaneseKun	KOTO TSUKAU KOTOTOSURU
kJapaneseOn	JI SHI
kJis0	2786
kKangXi	0085.240
kKorean	SA
kLau	2769
kMainlandTelegraph	0057
kMandarin	shì
kMatthews	5787
kMeyerWempe	2913
kMojiJoho	MJ006436
kMorohashi	00241
kNelson	0272
kPhonetic	1182
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+2244+6.1.7
kRSUnicode	6.7
kSBGY	357.07 358.04
kSemanticVariant	U+4E8A<kFenn
kSMSZD2003Index	12.06 5.04 210.05
kSMSZD2003Readings	shì粵si6
kTaiwanTelegraph	0057
kTang	*jrhiə̀ jrhiə̀
kTGHZ2013	337.020:shì
kTotalStrokes	8
kUnihanCore2020	GHJKMPT
kVietnamese	sự
kXerox	241:123
kXHC1983	1051.040:shì