U+4F59 "余" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

余

U+4F59 "余" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily functions as a pronoun meaning "I" or "me" in classical or literary contexts, and it also signifies concepts such as "surplus," "remainder," or "more than" in modern usage. In the Japanese language, it is known as the kanji "余" (yo or ama), similarly conveying notions of excess or leftover, and it appears in compound words like "余裕" (yoyuu, meaning "leeway") or "残余" (zan'yo, meaning "remnants"). This character is constructed with the radical "人" (person) and the component "示" (to show), and it is distinguished from the visually similar "余" (U+4F59) versus the simplified Chinese "余" used in mainland China, though both share the same Unicode code point. Its historical usage in classical Chinese poetry and philosophical texts, such as in the works of Confucius, underscores its enduring role as a personal pronoun and a marker of excess or leftover quantities.

General Properties

Code Point	U+4F59
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	余
HTML Hex Encoding	余
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE4 0xBD 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding	0x4F59
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00004F59
C/C++/Java Escape	\u4f59

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	A745
kCCCII	213131
kCNS1986	1-4927
kCNS1992	1-4927
kCangjie	OMD
kCantonese	jyu4
kCihaiT	97.601
kCowles	4886
kDaeJaweon	0208.090
kDefinition	I, my, me; surname; surplus
kEACC	276076
kFanqie	以諸視遮
kFenn	31F
kFennIndex	643.03
kFourCornerCode	8090.4
kGB0	5164
kGB1	6637
kGSR	0082a
kHangul	여:0E
kHanYu	10128.040
kHanyuPinlu	yú(287)
kHanyuPinyin	10128.040:yú,tú,xú,yù
kHKGlyph	0128
kIICore	AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	0208.090
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10128.040
kIRGKangXi	0099.020
kIRG_GSource	G0-5360
kIRG_HSource	HB1-A745
kIRG_JSource	J0-4D3E
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-F8C9
kIRG_KSource	K0-6579
kIRG_TSource	T1-4927
kIRG_VSource	V1-4B30
kJapanese	ヨヤあまるあますあまりわれ
kJoyoKanji	2010
kKoreanEducationHanja	2007
kTGH	2013:795
kJapaneseKun	AMARU WARE AMARI
kJapaneseOn	YO
kJis0	4530
kKangXi	0099.020
kKorean	YE
kMainlandTelegraph	0151
kMandarin	yú
kMatthews	7605
kMeyerWempe	3633
kMojiJoho	MJ006644
kMorohashi	00515
kNelson	0408 5168
kPhonetic	1610
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+3880+9.2.5
kRSUnicode	9.5
kSBGY	067.40 169.01
kSemanticVariant	U+4E88<kFenn
kSimplifiedVariant	"余" U+4F59 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	25.07
kSMSZD2003Readings	yú粵jyu4
kTaiwanTelegraph	0151
kTang	*iu iu
kTGHZ2013	446.020,446.030:yú
kTotalStrokes	7
kTraditionalVariant	"余" U+4F59 CJK Unified Ideograph-# "餘" U+9918 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	GHJKMPT
kVietnamese	dư
kXerox	252:301
kXHC1983	1408.170:yú