U+4E97 "亗" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+4E97 "亗" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare East Asian ideograph historically used in classical Chinese and Japanese writing, where it functions as a variant or alternative form of the character 歳 (sui), meaning "year" or "age." Its structure combines components related to time and rituals, but it is not commonly found in modern standard fonts or everyday text, making it an obscure glyph primarily encountered in specialized historical or calligraphic contexts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+4E97
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	亗
HTML Hex Encoding	亗
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE4 0xBA 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding	0x4E97
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00004E97
C/C++/Java Escape	\u4e97

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	3F4629
kCNS1986	E-216C
kCNS1992	3-216C
kCangjie	UMM
kCantonese	seoi3
kDaeJaweon	0183.070
kDefinition	harvest; year; age
kEACC	3F4629
kFennIndex	477.01
kHanYu	10760.050
kIRGDaeJaweon	0183.070
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10760.050
kIRGKangXi	0087.030
kIRG_GSource	GE-303E
kIRG_JSource	J1-303F
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-347A
kIRG_TSource	T3-216C
kJapanese	サイ
kJapaneseKun	TOSHI YOWAI
kJapaneseOn	SAI SEI
kJis1	1631
kKangXi	0087.030
kMandarin	suì
kMatthews	5538
kMojiJoho	MJ006447
kMorohashi	00261
kPhonetic	1103
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+21081+7.2.3 C+21081+46.3.2
kRSUnicode	7.3
kSemanticVariant	U+5C81<kFenn U+6B72<kMatthews U+21ED5<kFenn
kTotalStrokes	5