U+4F18 "优" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
优
U+4F18 "优" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "excellent," "superior," or "outstanding," and is also used as a verb meaning "to give preferential treatment" or "to favor." Composed of the radical 亻 (person) on the left and 尤 (especially, particularly) on the right, it often appears in words like 优秀 (yōuxiù meaning excellent) and 优先 (yōuxiān meaning priority). In modern usage, it carries a positive connotation of high quality or advantage, and it is a common component in names, product titles, and expressions related to merit or preference across Chinese, Japanese, and Korean contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+4F18 |
| 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 | 优 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 优 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE4 0xBC 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x4F18 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00004F18 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u4f18 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C9AC |
| kCCCII | 273266 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-216B |
| kCNS1992 | 2-216B |
| kCangjie | OIKU |
| kCantonese | jau1 |
| kDefinition | superior, excellent; actor |
| kEACC | 273266 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2321.4 |
| kGB0 | 5137 |
| kHangul | 우:N |
| kHanYu | 10120.020 |
| kHanyuPinlu | yōu(287) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10120.020:yóu,yōu |
| kIICore | AGT |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10120.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0096.121 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5345 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-C9AC |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-006584 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-216B |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-216B |
| kJapanese | ウ ユウ |
| kKoreanName | 2018 |
| kTGH | 2013:461 |
| kJapaneseOn | YUU U |
| kKangXi | 0096.121 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0327 |
| kMandarin | yōu |
| kMojiJoho | MJ006584 |
| kMorohashi | 00454 |
| kPhonetic | 1504* 1511* |
| kRSUnicode | 9.4 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "优" U+4F18 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 22.12 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 442.160:yōu |
| kTotalStrokes | 6 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "优" U+4F18 CJK Unified Ideograph-# "優" U+512A CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHMT |
| kXHC1983 | 1394.010:yōu |