U+4EEC "们" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+4EEC "们" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that serves as a pluralizing suffix for pronouns and nouns referring to people, such as adding it to "我" (wǒ, I) to form "我们" (wǒmen, we) or to "朋友" (péngyou, friend) to create "朋友们" (péngyoumen, friends). Unlike grammatical plurals in many Western languages, "们" is used primarily for animate beings and social groups, and it is not applied to inanimate objects or nouns with numerical quantifiers. This character is essential in Mandarin Chinese for conveying group identity and social relationships, and its pronunciation is "men" in neutral tone.

General Properties

Code Point	U+4EEC
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	们
HTML Hex Encoding	们
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE4 0xBB 0xAC
UTF-16 Encoding	0x4EEC
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00004EEC
C/C++/Java Escape	\u4eec

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	273173
kCangjie	OLS
kCantonese	mun4
kDefinition	adjunct pronoun indicate plural
kEACC	273173
kFourCornerCode	2722
kGB0	3539
kHanYu	10115.040
kHanyuPinlu	men(14950)
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10115.040
kIRGKangXi	0094.051
kIRG_GSource	G0-4347
kTGH	2013:273
kKangXi	0094.051
kMainlandTelegraph	0226
kMandarin	men
kRSUnicode	9.3
kSMSZD2003Index	20.05
kTGHZ2013	247.070:mén 247.150:men
kTotalStrokes	5
kTraditionalVariant	"們" U+5011 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0777.030:men