U+4E9A "亚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
亚
U+4E9A "亚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily functions as a variant and simplification of the character 亞, meaning "second," "inferior," or "sub-," and is commonly used in compound words such as 亚洲 (Yàzhōu), the Chinese name for Asia. This character is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideographs block in Unicode, representing a standardized form used across East Asian writing systems. In modern simplified Chinese, it appears in everyday vocabulary for concepts like "subordinate" or "next in rank," and it also carries historical and cultural significance as a component in terms related to geography and hierarchy.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+4E9A |
| 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 | 亚 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 亚 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE4 0xBA 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x4E9A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00004E9A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u4e9a |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 273058 |
| kCangjie | MTC |
| kCantonese | aa3 |
| kDefinition | Asia; second |
| kEACC | 273058 |
| kFourCornerCode | 1010 |
| kGB0 | 4939 |
| kHanYu | 10017.140 |
| kHanyuPinlu | yà(26) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10017.140 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0087.081 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5147 |
| kIRG_HSource | H-9DBA |
| kTGH | 2013:373 |
| kKangXi | 0087.081 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0068 |
| kMandarin | yà |
| kPhonetic | 2* |
| kRSUnicode | 7.4 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 13.07 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 420.130:yà |
| kTotalStrokes | 6 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "亞" U+4E9E CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GH |
| kXHC1983 | 1321.020:yà |