U+4FD9 "俙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+4FD9 "俙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used in historical and literary contexts, primarily in classical Chinese writing. Pronounced "xī" in Mandarin, its meanings include "to apply" or "to use," and it is also associated with a sense of "near" or "close" in certain ancient texts. Derived from the radical 人 (person) and the phonetic component 希 (xi), it appears in classical dictionaries such as the Kangxi Zidian, though its usage in modern Chinese is extremely rare. This character is also known to have been used in Japanese kanji, where it similarly denotes concepts of proximity or application, but it remains an uncommon and specialized logograph in both languages today.

General Properties

Code Point	U+4FD9
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	俙
HTML Hex Encoding	俙
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE4 0xBF 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding	0x4FD9
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00004FD9
C/C++/Java Escape	\u4fd9

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	CDE6
kCCCII	21663F
kCNS1986	2-2928
kCNS1992	2-2928
kCangjie	OKKB
kCantonese	hei1
kCihaiT	107.202
kDaeJaweon	0222.020
kDefinition	to pretend, appear as if
kFanqie	香衣 虚豈
kFourCornerCode	2422.7
kGB3	1733
kHangul	희:N
kHanYu	10163.070
kHanyuPinyin	10163.070:xī
kIICore	CK
kIRGDaeJaweon	0222.020
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10163.070
kIRGKangXi	0105.130
kIRG_GSource	G3-3141
kIRG_HSource	HB2-CDE6
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-006778
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-3596
kIRG_KSource	K2-224C
kIRG_TSource	T2-2928
kJapanese	キ ケ カイ
kKoreanName	2015
kTGH	2013:6857
kJapaneseKun	UTSUTAERU KOBIHETSURAU HONOKA
kJapaneseOn	KI KE KAI
kKangXi	0105.130
kKorean	HUY
kMandarin	xī
kMeyerWempe	694c
kMojiJoho	MJ006778
kMorohashi	00698
kPhonetic	451*
kRSUnicode	9.7
kSBGY	065.48 255.45
kTang	xiəi
kTGHZ2013	391.120:xī
kTotalStrokes	9
kUnihanCore2020	GHMT