U+512A "優" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

優

U+512A "優" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that means "excellent," "superior," "gentle," or "actor," and it is used in multiple East Asian languages including Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. In its components, the character combines the radical for "person" with elements suggesting abundance and grace, reflecting a sense of kindness, elegance, or high quality. In modern usage, it appears frequently in words like "優秀" meaning "outstanding" in Chinese, and in Japanese as "優しい" (yasashii) meaning "kind," as well as in terms related to performance or acting, such as "俳優" (haiyuu) for "actor." This character thus carries both a moral and aesthetic dimension, denoting not only technical excellence but also gentleness and refinement.

General Properties

Code Point	U+512A
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	優
HTML Hex Encoding	優
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x84 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding	0x512A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000512A
C/C++/Java Escape	\u512a

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	C075
kCCCII	213266
kCNS1986	1-7340
kCNS1992	1-7340
kCangjie	OMBE
kCantonese	jau1
kCihaiT	129.602
kCowles	5143
kDaeJaweon	0254.260
kDefinition	superior, excellent; actor
kEACC	213266
kFanqie	於求
kFenn	412D
kFennIndex	635.05
kFourCornerCode	2124.7
kGB1	5137
kGradeLevel	4
kGSR	1071d
kHangul	우:0E
kHanYu	10233.040
kHanyuPinlu	yōu(287)
kHanyuPinyin	10233.040:yōu
kHKGlyph	0255
kIICore	ATJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	0254.260
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10233.040
kIRGKangXi	0120.280
kIRG_GSource	G1-5345
kIRG_HSource	HB1-C075
kIRG_JSource	J0-4D25
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-FAD9
kIRG_KSource	K0-6950
kIRG_TSource	T1-7340
kIRG_VSource	V2-8A47
kJapanese	ユウウオウやさしいすぐれるまさるゆたかわざおぎ
kJoyoKanji	2010
kKoreanEducationHanja	2007
kJapaneseKun	YASASHII SUGURERU WAZAOGI
kJapaneseOn	YUU U
kJis0	4505
kKangXi	0120.280
kKarlgren	260
kKorean	WU
kLau	3345
kMandarin	yōu
kMatthews	7509
kMeyerWempe	3843
kMojiJoho	MJ007179 MJ007179:E0101 MJ007180:E0102 MJ007178:E0103
kMorohashi	01261:E0103
kNelson	0564
kPhonetic	1504
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+3855+9.2.15
kRSUnicode	9.15
kSBGY	202.34
kSimplifiedVariant	"优" U+4F18 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	42.14
kSMSZD2003Readings	yōu粵jau1
kTaiwanTelegraph	0327
kTang	qiou
kTotalStrokes	17
kUnihanCore2020	HJKMPT
kXerox	246:373
kXHC1983	1394.011:yōu