U+4F55 "何" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
何
U+4F55 "何" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a standard logographic character used in written Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, where it primarily functions as an interrogative pronoun meaning "what," "why," or "how," depending on context. In Japanese, it can be read as "nani" or "nan" in compounds, while in Chinese its pinyin is "hé." The character is composed of the radical "亻" (person) on the left and "可" (able) on the right, visually suggesting a person asking a question. Beyond its literal meaning, "何" appears in many common phrases and compounds across East Asian languages, such as the Japanese word "何故" (naze, meaning "why") or the Chinese term "如何" (rúhé, meaning "how").
General Properties
| Code Point | U+4F55 |
| 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 | 何 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 何 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE4 0xBD 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x4F55 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00004F55 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u4f55 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A6F3 |
| kCCCII | 213133 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4874 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4874 |
| kCangjie | OMNR |
| kCantonese | ho4 |
| kCihaiT | 97.204 |
| kCowles | 1120 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0208.050 |
| kDefinition | what, why, where, which, how |
| kEACC | 213133 |
| kFanqie | 胡歌 胡可 |
| kFenn | 700C |
| kFennIndex | 155.05 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2122.0 |
| kGB0 | 2646 |
| kGB1 | 2646 |
| kGradeLevel | 4 |
| kGSR | 0001f |
| kHangul | 하:0E |
| kHanYu | 10130.040 |
| kHanyuPinlu | hé(691) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10130.040:hè,hé |
| kHKGlyph | 0110 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0208.050 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10130.040 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0098.150 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3A4E |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A6F3 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-323F |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F2BB |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-793C |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4874 |
| kIRG_VSource | V2-8A32 |
| kJapanese | カ なに なん いくばく いずれ なんぞ |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:771 |
| kJapaneseKun | NANI NANZO IZUKU |
| kJapaneseOn | KA GA |
| kJis0 | 1831 |
| kKangXi | 0098.150 |
| kKarlgren | 72 |
| kKorean | HA |
| kLau | 1203 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0149 |
| kMandarin | hé |
| kMatthews | 2109 |
| kMeyerWempe | 755 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ006640 |
| kMorohashi | 00511 |
| kNelson | 0409 |
| kPhonetic | 487 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1343+9.2.5 |
| kRSUnicode | 9.5 |
| kSBGY | 161.15 304.48 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 25.04 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | hé粵ho4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0149 |
| kTang | *hɑ hɑ |
| kTGHZ2013 | 134.010:hé |
| kTotalStrokes | 7 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kXerox | 242:163 |
| kXHC1983 | 0450.020:hé |