U+54C9 "哉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
哉
U+54C9 "哉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a classical Chinese character that primarily functions as an exclamatory or interrogative particle in literary and historical texts. Often used at the end of phrases or sentences in Classical Chinese, it conveys a tone of surprise, admiration, rhetorical questioning, or emphasis, similar in some contexts to expressions like "how" or "indeed" in English. In modern Mandarin, it is less frequently used in everyday conversation but remains common in idiomatic phrases, poetry, and traditional writing, such as in the well-known phrase "善哉" meaning "excellent" or "well said" in Buddhist and classical contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+54C9 |
| 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 | 哉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 哉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x93 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x54C9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000054C9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u54c9 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | AB76 |
| kCCCII | 213629 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-503A |
| kCNS1992 | 1-503A |
| kCangjie | JIR |
| kCantonese | zoi1 |
| kCihaiT | 270.201 |
| kCowles | 4604 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0408.140 |
| kDefinition | final exclamatory particle |
| kEACC | 213629 |
| kFanqie | 祖才 |
| kFenn | 334F |
| kFennIndex | 537.05 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4365.0 |
| kGB0 | 5253 |
| kGB1 | 5253 |
| kGSR | 0943v |
| kHangul | 재:0E |
| kHanYu | 10611.070 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10611.070:zāi |
| kHKGlyph | 0563 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0408.140 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10611.070 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0189.080 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5455 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-AB76 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3A48 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-EBD5 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6E23 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-503A |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-4F30 |
| kJapanese | サイ かな や |
| kJinmeiyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:1381 |
| kJapaneseKun | KANA YA |
| kJapaneseOn | SAI |
| kJis0 | 2640 |
| kKangXi | 0189.080 |
| kKorean | CAY |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0762 |
| kMandarin | zāi |
| kMatthews | 6650 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3433 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008260 MJ008260:E0101 MJ008261:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 03596 03596:E0101 |
| kNelson | 0777 |
| kPhonetic | 239 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2104+30.3.6 C+2104+62.4.5 |
| kRSUnicode | 30.6 |
| kSBGY | 100.29 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 102.01 235.15 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | zāi粵zoi1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0762 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 456.110:zāi |
| kTotalStrokes | 9 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | tai |
| kXerox | 254:047 |
| kXHC1983 | 1436.050:zāi |