U+554F "問" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
問
U+554F "問" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese and Japanese kanji that represents the concept of a question or to ask, derived from the radical 口 (mouth) under the element 門 (gate), suggesting the act of seeking information through spoken inquiry. It is used in various East Asian languages to construct words related to interrogation, inquiry, or problems, such as in Mandarin Chinese where "Wèn" is a direct noun or verb for a question, and in Japanese where it appears in terms like "質問" (shitsumon) meaning a query. This ideograph embodies a fundamental aspect of human communication and learning, emphasizing the exchange of knowledge through verbal or written means.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+554F |
| 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 | 問 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 問 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x95 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x554F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000554F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u554f |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B0DD |
| kCCCII | 213648 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5942 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5942 |
| kCangjie | ANR |
| kCantonese | man6 |
| kCihaiT | 279.303 |
| kCowles | 2629 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0416.100 |
| kDefinition | ask (about), inquire after |
| kEACC | 213648 |
| kFanqie | 亡運 |
| kFenn | 635A |
| kFennIndex | 603.02 |
| kFourCornerCode | 7760.7 |
| kGB1 | 4642 |
| kGradeLevel | 1 |
| kGSR | 0441g |
| kHangul | 문:0E |
| kHanYu | 74284.030 |
| kHanyuPinlu | wèn(2838) wen(54) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 74284.030:wèn |
| kHKGlyph | 0606 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0416.100 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74284.030 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0195.100 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-4E4A |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B0DD |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4C64 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-DBEB |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-597D |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5942 |
| kIRG_VSource | V2-8A71 |
| kJapanese | モン ブン とう とい とん |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kJapaneseKun | TOU TON |
| kJapaneseOn | MON BUN |
| kJis0 | 4468 |
| kKangXi | 0195.100 |
| kKorean | MWUN |
| kLau | 2098 |
| kMandarin | wèn |
| kMatthews | 7141 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1785 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008387 |
| kMorohashi | 03814 |
| kNelson | 4944 |
| kPhonetic | 929 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+3824+30.3.8 C+3824+169.8.3 |
| kRSUnicode | 30.8 |
| kSBGY | 395.31 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "问" U+95EE CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 106.18 743.07 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | wén粵man6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0795 |
| kTang | *miə̀n |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kXerox | 241:174 |