U+5462 "呢" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
呢
U+5462 "呢" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used in both Simplified and Traditional Chinese writing, primarily functioning as a modal particle in spoken and written language. It is commonly employed in questions to indicate a casual or rhetorical tone, such as in "你呢?" meaning "and you?" or in sentences like "他在干什么呢?" meaning "What is he doing?" Additionally, it can serve to soften commands or express ongoing actions when paired with other particles, making it an essential element for conveying nuance in Mandarin Chinese conversation and text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5462 |
| 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 | 呢 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 呢 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x91 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5462 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005462 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5462 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A94F |
| kCCCII | 213569 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4C51 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4C51 |
| kCangjie | RSP |
| kCantonese | nai4 |
| kCheungBauer | 030/05;RSP;nei1,ni1 |
| kCheungBauerIndex | 351.05 |
| kCihaiT | 265.403 |
| kCowles | 2872 2881 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0399.310 |
| kDefinition | interrogative or emphatic final; (Cant.) this |
| kEACC | 213569 |
| kFanqie | 女夷 |
| kFenn | 725A |
| kFennIndex | 359.07 359.09 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6701.1 |
| kGB0 | 3656 |
| kGB1 | 3656 |
| kGradeLevel | 1 |
| kHangul | 니:1N |
| kHanYu | 10609.030 |
| kHanyuPinlu | ne(2307) ní(21) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10609.030:ní,nǐ,nī,ne |
| kHKGlyph | 0539 |
| kIICore | AGTHM |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0399.310 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10609.030 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0181.250 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4458 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A94F |
| kIRG_JSource | J14-2369 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-3973 |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-5C5B |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4C51 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-4E69 |
| kJapanese | ジ ニ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:1102 |
| kJIS0213 | 2,03,73 |
| kJapaneseOn | JI NI |
| kJis1 | 2085 |
| kKangXi | 0181.250 |
| kKorean | NI |
| kLau | 2280 2281 2282 2370 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0716 |
| kMandarin | ne |
| kMatthews | 4656 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1977 2074 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008152 |
| kMorohashi | 03430 |
| kPhonetic | 946 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+17350+30.3.5 |
| kRSUnicode | 30.5 |
| kSBGY | 053.45 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 96.05 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | né粵nai4,nei4 ne粵ne1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0716 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 263.160:ne 264.120:ní |
| kTotalStrokes | 8 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHMT |
| kVietnamese | nài |
| kXerox | 241:335 |
| kXHC1983 | 0822.040:ne 0827.030:ní |