U+4F6C "佬" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
佬
U+4F6C "佬" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character commonly used in informal or colloquial contexts, often as a noun suffix or appellation. It generally refers to a "guy," "fellow," or "man," and can carry a familiar, slightly condescending, or endearing tone depending on usage, such as in the Cantonese slang "大佬" meaning "big brother" or "boss." In Mandarin, it appears in terms like "鄉巴佬" meaning "country bumpkin" or "foreigner," though in some regions like southern China and Macau, it may also colloquially mean "Macanese person." The character is composed of the radical 亻 (person) and the phonetic component 老 (old), reflecting its human reference.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+4F6C |
| 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 | 佬 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 佬 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE4 0xBD 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x4F6C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00004F6C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u4f6c |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A8D0 |
| kCCCII | 21314D |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4B71 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4B71 |
| kCangjie | OJKP |
| kCantonese | lou2 |
| kCheungBauer | 009/06;OJKP;lou2 |
| kCheungBauerIndex | 339.08 340.01 |
| kCihaiT | 104.302 |
| kCowles | 2404 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0212.050 |
| kDefinition | (Cant.) man, person; mature |
| kEACC | 21314D |
| kFenn | 189I |
| kFennIndex | 290.02 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2421.1 |
| kGB0 | 3248 |
| kGB1 | 3248 |
| kHanYu | 10144.020 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10144.020:liáo,lǎo |
| kHKGlyph | 0136 |
| kIICore | AGTHM |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0212.050 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10144.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0100.090 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4050 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A8D0 |
| kIRG_JSource | J13-2E33 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-352F |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-2224 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4B71 |
| kJapanese | リョウ ロ ロウ |
| kTGH | 2013:3951 |
| kJIS0213 | 1,14,19 |
| kJapaneseKun | OOKII |
| kJapaneseOn | RYOU RO ROU |
| kJis1 | 1683 |
| kKangXi | 0100.090 |
| kLau | 1927 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0097 |
| kMandarin | lǎo |
| kMeyerWempe | 1612 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ006662 |
| kMorohashi | 00548 |
| kPhonetic | 824 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+16782+9.2.6 C+16782+125.6.2 |
| kRSUnicode | 9.6 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 26.16 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | lǎo粵lou2 |
| kSpecializedSemanticVariant | U+59C6<kFenn |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 9772 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 211.040:lǎo |
| kTotalStrokes | 8 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHMT |
| kXerox | 267:175 |
| kXHC1983 | 0682.040:lǎo |