U+5008 "倈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+5008 "倈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (Hanzi) that traditionally means "to be a retainer" or "a servant" and is also used as a variant of "来" (lái, "to come") in classical texts. It is composed of the radical "亻" (rén, person) on the left and the phonetic component "来" (lái) on the right, indicating both meaning and pronunciation. This character appears in historical writings and is sometimes found in names or poetic contexts, though it is not commonly used in modern standard Chinese.

General Properties

Code Point U+5008
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 倈
HTML Hex Encoding 倈
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0x80 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding 0x5008
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00005008
C/C++/Java Escape \u5008

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

kCCCII 216658
kCNS1986 E-2F4F
kCNS1992 3-2F4F
kCangjie ODOO
kCantonese loi4
kCihaiT 115.506
kDaeJaweon 0227.210
kDefinition to induce to come; to encourage
kEACC 2D314C
kFanqie 里之
kFennIndex 285.02
kGB3 1728
kHanYu 10172.020
kHanyuPinyin 10172.020:lái,lài,liē
kIICore CT
kIRGDaeJaweon 0227.210
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10172.020
kIRGKangXi 0107.130
kIRG_GSource G3-313C
kIRG_HSource H-FA59
kIRG_JSource JMJ-006822
kIRG_KPSource KP1-35B7
kIRG_KSource K2-225A
kIRG_TSource T3-2F4F
kIRG_VSource V1-4B57
kJapanese ライ
kJapaneseOn RAI
kKangXi 0107.130
kLau 1962
kMandarin lái
kMatthews 3769
kMojiJoho MJ006822
kMorohashi 00755
kPhonetic 829
kRSUnicode 9.8
kSBGY 061.60
kSemanticVariant U+5FA0<kLau,kMatthews U+52D1<kLau
kSimplifiedVariant "俫" U+4FEB CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kTaiwanTelegraph 0206
kTotalStrokes 10
kUnihanCore2020 H
kVietnamese lười
kXerox 272:046
kXHC1983 0671.062:lái