U+4F3C "似" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
似
U+4F3C "似" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that is also used in Japanese (kanji) and Korean (hanja) writing systems. Its fundamental meaning revolves around the concepts of "resembling," "appearing like," or "being similar to," and it is commonly employed in words such as "相似" (xiāngsì in Chinese) meaning similar, and "類似" (ruiji in Japanese) meaning analogous. In classical texts and modern usage, it can also carry nuanced connotations of "seeming" or "as if," often appearing in compound terms that express approximation or imitation. This character represents a semantic component in the CJK Unified Ideographs block, codified for digital text processing across East Asian languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+4F3C |
| 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 | 似 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 似 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE4 0xBC 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x4F3C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00004F3C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u4f3c |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A6FC |
| kCCCII | 21313D |
| kCNS1986 | 1-487D |
| kCNS1992 | 1-487D |
| kCangjie | OVIO |
| kCantonese | ci5 |
| kCihaiT | 95.104 |
| kCowles | 4868 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0205.160 |
| kDefinition | resemble, similar to; as if, seem |
| kEACC | 21313D |
| kFanqie | 詳里 |
| kFenn | 431C |
| kFennIndex | 482.04 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2820.0 |
| kGB0 | 4338 |
| kGB1 | 4338 |
| kGradeLevel | 3 |
| kGSR | 0976h |
| kHangul | 사:0E |
| kHanYu | 10127.020 |
| kHanyuPinlu | shì(599) sì(401) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10127.020:sì,shì |
| kHKGlyph | 0120 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0205.160 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10127.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0097.100 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4B46 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A6FC |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3B77 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E0CA |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5E44 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-487D |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-4B28 |
| kJapanese | ジ シ にる |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:481 |
| kJapaneseKun | NIRU |
| kJapaneseOn | JI |
| kJis0 | 2787 |
| kKangXi | 0097.100 |
| kKarlgren | 182 |
| kKorean | SA |
| kLau | 296 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0138 |
| kMandarin | sì |
| kMatthews | 5593 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3559 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ006612 |
| kMorohashi | 00485 |
| kNelson | 0376 |
| kPhonetic | 1551 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2245+9.2.5 |
| kRSUnicode | 9.5 |
| kSBGY | 251.26 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 23.18 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | sì粵ci5 shì粵ci5 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0138 |
| kTang | *ziə̌ ziə̌ |
| kTGHZ2013 | 336.140:shì 347.040:sì |
| kTotalStrokes | 6 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | tự |
| kXerox | 244:041 |
| kXHC1983 | 1054.020:shì 1090.080:sì |