U+4F4D "位" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

位

U+4F4D "位" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that fundamentally means "position," "location," "place," or "rank," and it is commonly used in both modern and classical Chinese texts. It is composed of the radical 亻 (person) on the left and the phonetic component 立 (standing) on the right, visually representing a person standing in a specific spot. This character appears in many everyday words, such as 位置 (position), 单位 (unit or workplace), and 各位 (everyone or each person), and it also carries grammatical significance as a polite measure word for people, similar to "person" in English. With a rich history in the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) writing systems, the character 位 represents a fundamental concept of spatial and social order across East Asian languages.

General Properties

Code Point	U+4F4D
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	位
HTML Hex Encoding	位
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE4 0xBD 0x8D
UTF-16 Encoding	0x4F4D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00004F4D
C/C++/Java Escape	\u4f4d

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

kBigFive	A6EC
kCCCII	21312B
kCNS1986	1-486D
kCNS1992	1-486D
kCangjie	OYT
kCantonese	wai6
kCihaiT	96.104
kCowles	5014
kDaeJaweon	0206.180
kDefinition	throne; position, post; rank, status; seat
kEACC	21312B
kFanqie	于愧
kFenn	84A
kFennIndex	599.04
kFourCornerCode	2021.8
kGB0	4627
kGB1	4627
kGradeLevel	1
kGSR	0539a
kHangul	위:0E
kHanYu	10138.030
kHanyuPinlu	wèi(1252)
kHanyuPinyin	10138.030:wèi,lì
kHKGlyph	0103
kIICore	AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	0206.180
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10138.030
kIRGKangXi	0098.070
kIRG_GSource	G0-4E3B
kIRG_HSource	HB1-A6EC
kIRG_JSource	J0-304C
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-FDC1
kIRG_KSource	K0-6A48
kIRG_TSource	T1-486D
kIRG_VSource	V1-4B2B
kJapanese	イくらい
kJoyoKanji	2010
kKoreanEducationHanja	2007
kTGH	2013:784
kJapaneseKun	KURAI KURAISURU
kJapaneseOn	I
kJis0	1644
kKangXi	0098.070
kKarlgren	524
kKorean	WI
kLau	3211 3212
kMainlandTelegraph	0143
kMandarin	wèi
kMatthews	7116
kMeyerWempe	3741
kMojiJoho	MJ006630
kMorohashi	00503
kNelson	0401
kPhonetic	767 1436
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+1168+9.2.5 C+1168+117.5.2
kRSUnicode	9.5
kSBGY	350.11
kSMSZD2003Index	24.07
kSMSZD2003Readings	wèi粵wai6
kTaiwanTelegraph	0143
kTang	hyuɛ̀
kTGHZ2013	384.010:wèi
kTotalStrokes	7
kUnihanCore2020	GHJKMPT
kVietnamese	vị
kXerox	241:350
kXHC1983	1201.060:wèi