U+54C0 "哀" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
哀
U+54C0 "哀" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that carries the primary meaning of grief, sorrow, or pity, often found in classical and modern East Asian texts. Its structure combines the radical for "mouth" (口) with elements suggesting clothing or cover, reflecting an ancient conceptualization of sorrow as something enveloping or vocalized. This ideograph appears in words like 悲哀 (bēi'āi, meaning sadness) and 哀悼 (āidào, meaning mourning), and it holds cultural significance in poetry, philosophy, and ritual contexts, where it conveys a deep, often compassionate sense of lament.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+54C0 |
| 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 | 哀 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 哀 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x93 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x54C0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000054C0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u54c0 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | AB73 |
| kCCCII | 213624 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5037 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5037 |
| kCangjie | YRHV |
| kCantonese | oi1 |
| kCihaiT | 270.401 |
| kCowles | 3095 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0407.110 |
| kDefinition | sad, mournful, pitiful; pity |
| kEACC | 213624 |
| kFanqie | 烏開 |
| kFenn | 367C |
| kFennIndex | 1.09 |
| kFourCornerCode | 0073.2 |
| kGB0 | 1607 |
| kGB1 | 1607 |
| kGradeLevel | 4 |
| kGSR | 0550h |
| kHangul | 애:0E |
| kHanYu | 10620.100 |
| kHanyuPinlu | āi(55) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10620.100:āi |
| kHKGlyph | 0557 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0407.110 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10620.100 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0188.110 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3027 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-AB73 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3025 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-FCEE |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-646E |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5037 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-4F29 |
| kJapanese | アイ あわれ あわれむ かなしい |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:1619 |
| kJapaneseKun | AWARE AWAREMU KANASHII |
| kJapaneseOn | AI |
| kJis0 | 1605 |
| kKangXi | 0188.110 |
| kKarlgren | 185 |
| kKorean | AY |
| kLau | 2426 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0755 |
| kMandarin | āi |
| kMatthews | 3 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2141 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008251 |
| kMorohashi | 03580 |
| kNelson | 0304 |
| kPhonetic | 993 1531 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1129+30.3.6 C+1129+145.6.3 |
| kRSUnicode | 30.6 |
| kSBGY | 099.05 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 101.05 15.13 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | āi粵oi1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0755 |
| kTang | *qəi |
| kTGHZ2013 | 001.110:āi |
| kTotalStrokes | 9 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | ai |
| kXerox | 252:045 |
| kXHC1983 | 0002.090:āi |