U+4EC0 "什" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

什

U+4EC0 "什" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily used in East Asian languages, including Mandarin, Japanese, and Korean. It is commonly pronounced as "shén" in Mandarin and functions as a versatile interrogative pronoun meaning "what" or "something," often appearing in compound words such as "什么" (shénme, meaning "what") or "什锦" (shíjǐn, meaning "assorted"). With a meaning that also extends to "ten" or "mixed" in certain historical or classical contexts, this character is derived from the radical "亻" (person) combined with the phonetic component "十" (ten), reflecting its original sense of a unit of ten people in ancient Chinese. Its structured strokes and phonetic significance make it a fundamental component in everyday communication and written text across multiple writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+4EC0
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	什
HTML Hex Encoding	什
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE4 0xBB 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding	0x4EC0
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00004EC0
C/C++/Java Escape	\u4ec0

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	Numeric
Numeric Value	10
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	A4B0
kCCCII	213067
kCNS1986	1-446F
kCNS1992	1-446F
kCangjie	OJ
kCantonese	sap6
kCihaiT	82.602
kCowles	3847
kDaeJaweon	0192.060
kDefinition	file of ten soldiers; mixed, miscellaneous
kEACC	4B4B77
kFanqie	是執
kFenn	13F
kFennIndex	450.07
kFourCornerCode	2420.0
kGB0	4218
kGB1	4218
kGradeLevel	2
kGSR	0686e
kHangul	십:0N 집:0N
kHanYu	10108.020
kHanyuPinlu	shén(4045) shen(17)
kHanyuPinyin	10108.020:shí,shén
kHKGlyph	0069
kIICore	AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	0192.060
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10108.020
kIRGKangXi	0091.060
kIRG_GSource	G0-4A32
kIRG_HSource	HB1-A4B0
kIRG_JSource	J0-3D3A
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-E5EB
kIRG_KSource	K0-6427
kIRG_TSource	T1-446F
kIRG_VSource	V1-4A63
kJapanese	ジュウシュウ
kKoreanName	2015
kTGH	2013:129
kJapaneseKun	KUMI TOU MAJIRU
kJapaneseOn	SHUU JUU
kJis0	2926
kKangXi	0091.060
kKorean	SIP CIP
kLau	1301 2671
kMainlandTelegraph	0087
kMandarin	shén
kMatthews	5808
kMeyerWempe	2640
kMojiJoho	MJ006496
kMorohashi	00348
kNelson	0345
kOtherNumeric	10
kPhonetic	1132
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+2372+9.2.2 C+2372+24.2.2
kRSUnicode	9.2
kSBGY	531.17
kSMSZD2003Index	17.06
kSMSZD2003Readings	shí粵sap6 shí粵zaap6 shén粵sam6
kTaiwanTelegraph	0087
kTGHZ2013	331.050:shén 334.170:shí
kTotalStrokes	4
kUnihanCore2020	GHJKMPT
kVietnamese	thập
kXerox	320:253
kXHC1983	1021.010:shén 1038.020:shí