U+502D "倭" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

倭

U+502D "倭" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that historically referred to the Japanese people or Japan, often in a neutral or descriptive sense, though in modern Chinese it carries a strong derogatory connotation due to its association with ancient Chinese references to Japan and later pejorative usage, especially during and after the Second World War. Its etymology combines the radical for "person" or "human" with the phonetic component "委," and it appears in classical texts such as the "Book of Han" to denote the "Wa" people, the early Japanese civilization. In Japanese, the character is pronounced "Wa" and was once used as an ancient name for Japan itself, but it has since been largely replaced by the more neutral character "和" to avoid negative implications in international contexts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+502D
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	倭
HTML Hex Encoding	倭
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x80 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding	0x502D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000502D
C/C++/Java Escape	\u502d

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	ADD8
kCCCII	213229
kCNS1986	1-543B
kCNS1992	1-543B
kCangjie	OHDV
kCantonese	wai1
kCihaiT	115.202
kDaeJaweon	0232.040
kDefinition	dwarf; dwarfish, short
kEACC	213229
kFanqie	於爲烏禾烏果
kFenn	512G
kFennIndex	596.05 604.04
kFourCornerCode	2224.4
kGB0	5733
kGB1	5733
kGSR	0357b
kHangul	왜:0N
kHanYu	10179.080
kHanyuPinyin	10179.080:wēi,wō,wǒ
kHKGlyph	0194
kIICore	AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	0232.040
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10179.080
kIRGKangXi	0109.060
kIRG_GSource	G0-5941
kIRG_HSource	HB1-ADD8
kIRG_JSource	J0-4F41
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-FECE
kIRG_KSource	K0-685E
kIRG_TSource	T1-543B
kIRG_VSource	V1-4B69
kJapanese	ワイやまと
kJinmeiyoKanji	2010
kKoreanName	2015
kTGH	2013:4570
kJapaneseKun	SHITAGAU YAMATO
kJapaneseOn	I WA
kJis0	4733
kKangXi	0109.060
kKorean	WI WAY
kLau	3242
kMainlandTelegraph	0244
kMandarin	wō
kMatthews	7153
kMeyerWempe	3775
kMojiJoho	MJ006868
kMorohashi	00796
kNelson	0475
kPhonetic	1425
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+4071+9.2.8
kRSUnicode	9.8
kSBGY	042.21 164.13 306.51
kSMSZD2003Index	34.10
kSMSZD2003Readings	wō粵wo1 wō粵wo2 wēi粵wai1
kTaiwanTelegraph	0244
kTGHZ2013	387.010:wō
kTotalStrokes	10
kUnihanCore2020	GHJKMPT
kVietnamese	oải
kXerox	256:067
kXHC1983	1209.030:wō