U+4F7F "使" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
使
U+4F7F "使" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Han character that in modern Chinese and Japanese (as well as in historical Korean usage) primarily means "to cause," "to make," "to use," or "to send." It is composed of the radical for "person" (亻) on the left, indicating a human agent, and the phonetic component 吏 on the right, which originally related to an official or messenger. This character appears frequently in compound words such as 使用 (shiyong, "to use") and 使者 (shisha, "envoy" or "messenger"), reflecting its core semantic roles of agency and causation. Its historical usage in classical texts further reinforces its function in expressing commands, purposes, or deputized actions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+4F7F |
| 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 | 使 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 使 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE4 0xBD 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x4F7F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00004F7F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u4f7f |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A8CF |
| kCCCII | 21314A |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4B70 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4B70 |
| kCangjie | OJLK |
| kCantonese | si2 |
| kCihaiT | 101.303 |
| kCowles | 3768 3774 3814 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0213.120 |
| kDefinition | cause, send on a mission, order; envoy, messenger, ambassador |
| kEACC | 21314A |
| kFanqie | 踈士 踈吏 |
| kFenn | 170A |
| kFennIndex | 452.07 453.01 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2520.6 |
| kGB0 | 4225 |
| kGB1 | 4225 |
| kGradeLevel | 3 |
| kGSR | 0975n |
| kHangul | 사:0E |
| kHanYu | 10145.020 |
| kHanyuPinlu | shǐ(2283) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10145.020:shǐ |
| kHKGlyph | 0135 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0213.120 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10145.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0101.050 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4A39 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A8CF |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3B48 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E0CB |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5E45 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4B70 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-4B39 |
| kJapanese | シ つかう しむ |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:1139 |
| kJapaneseKun | TSUKAU TSUKAI |
| kJapaneseOn | SHI |
| kJis0 | 2740 |
| kKangXi | 0101.050 |
| kKarlgren | 526 |
| kKorean | SA SI |
| kLau | 2633 2761 2762 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0169 |
| kMandarin | shǐ |
| kMatthews | 5770 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2613 2907 2911 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ006687 MJ006687:E0102 MJ006688:E0103 |
| kMorohashi | 00573:E0103 |
| kNelson | 0432 |
| kPhonetic | 793 1177 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2198+9.2.6 V+13450+9.2.6 |
| kRSUnicode | 9.6 |
| kSBGY | 252.10 357.41 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+20B46<kKangXi:T |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 27.03 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | shǐ粵si2,sai2 shǐ粵si3 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0169 |
| kTang | *shriə̌ shriə̀ shriə̌ |
| kTGHZ2013 | 336.030:shǐ |
| kTotalStrokes | 8 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | sứ |
| kXerox | 241:352 |
| kXHC1983 | 1045.010:shǐ |