U+4ECE "从" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

从

U+4ECE "从" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents the meaning of "from," "by," "through," or "to follow," and it is composed of two simplified radical elements that suggest two people walking together, symbolizing following or accompanying. Its traditional counterpart is 從, and in modern Chinese, it is commonly used in phrases like 從前 (cóngqián, meaning "in the past" or "formerly") and 從此 (cóngcǐ, meaning "from now on" or "henceforth"). This character belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideographs block in the Unicode standard, and it appears in everyday writing across multiple East Asian languages, including Japanese and Korean, where it carries similar semantic nuances related to origin or accompaniment.

General Properties

Code Point	U+4ECE
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	从
HTML Hex Encoding	从
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE4 0xBB 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding	0x4ECE
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00004ECE
C/C++/Java Escape	\u4ece

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	216462
kCNS1986	E-214B
kCNS1992	3-214B
kCangjie	OO
kCantonese	cung4
kCihaiT	85.103
kDaeJaweon	0195.010
kDefinition	from, by, since, whence, through
kEACC	273D6C
kFanqie	疾容
kFennIndex	565.05 566.01
kFourCornerCode	8800.0
kGB0	2051
kGSR	1191a
kHanYu	10105.030
kHanyuPinlu	cóng(3708) cōng(25)
kIICore	AG
kIRGDaeJaweon	0195.010
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10105.030
kIRGKangXi	0092.030
kIRG_GSource	G0-3453
kIRG_HSource	H-9FCF
kIRG_JSource	J0-503A
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-34A5
kIRG_KSource	K2-2157
kIRG_TSource	T3-214B
kJapanese	ショウジュウ
kTGH	2013:142
kJapaneseKun	SHITAGAU YORI
kJapaneseOn	JUU SHOU JU
kJis0	4826
kKangXi	0092.030
kKorean	CONG
kMainlandTelegraph	1783
kMandarin	cóng
kMatthews	6919
kMojiJoho	MJ006512
kMorohashi	00362
kPhonetic	329
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+4115+9.2.2
kRSUnicode	9.2
kSBGY	036.37
kSemanticVariant	U+5F9E<kMatthews
kSimplifiedVariant	"从" U+4ECE CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	18.06
kSpecializedSemanticVariant	U+5F9E<kFenn
kTGHZ2013	056.140:cóng
kTotalStrokes	4
kTraditionalVariant	"从" U+4ECE CJK Unified Ideograph-# "從" U+5F9E CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	GHJ
kXHC1983	0177.100:cōng 0178.090:cóng