U+591C "夜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
夜
U+591C "夜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a logogram representing "night" or "evening" in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, where it is used in both classical and modern writing systems. This character, pronounced yè in Mandarin, yoru in Japanese, and ya in Korean, appears in numerous compounds and idioms, such as the Chinese word for "midnight" or the Japanese term for "night view." Its structure combines the radical for "evening" or "moon" with other components, reflecting its semantic connection to the nighttime hours.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+591C |
| 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 | 夜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 夜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xA4 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x591C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000591C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u591c |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A95D |
| kCCCII | 21387E |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4C5F |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4C5F |
| kCangjie | YONK |
| kCantonese | je6 |
| kCihaiT | 341.401 |
| kCowles | 5176 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0490.070 |
| kDefinition | night, dark; in night; by night |
| kEACC | 21387E |
| kFanqie | 羊謝 |
| kFenn | 268A |
| kFennIndex | 621.01 |
| kFourCornerCode | 0024.7 |
| kGB0 | 5025 |
| kGB1 | 5025 |
| kGradeLevel | 2 |
| kGSR | 0800j |
| kHangul | 야:0E |
| kHanYu | 10285.010 |
| kHanyuPinlu | yè(799) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10285.010:yè |
| kHKGlyph | 0831 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0490.070 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10285.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0246.180 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5239 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A95D |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4C6B |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F7E2 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6528 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4C5F |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-5145 |
| kJapanese | ヤ エキ ヤク よ よる |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:1209 |
| kJapaneseKun | YO YORU |
| kJapaneseOn | YA |
| kJis0 | 4475 |
| kKangXi | 0246.180 |
| kKarlgren | 187 |
| kKorean | YA |
| kLau | 3378 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 1123 |
| kMandarin | yè |
| kMatthews | 7315 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3869 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ009441 |
| kMorohashi | 05763 |
| kNelson | 0298 |
| kPhonetic | 170 1522 1556 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+3831+8.2.6 C+3831+36.3.5 |
| kRSUnicode | 36.5 |
| kSBGY | 422.55 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 145.06 15.03 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | yè粵je6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 1123 |
| kTang | *ià |
| kTGHZ2013 | 430.050:yè |
| kTotalStrokes | 8 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | dạ |
| kXerox | 244:100 |
| kXHC1983 | 1347.020:yè |