U+5E74 "年" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
年
U+5E74 "年" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a commonly used East Asian character that represents the concept of "year" in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese contexts, originating from ancient pictographs that depicted a person carrying a bundle of harvested grain, symbolizing a harvest cycle or annual period. It appears frequently in words related to time, age, and holidays, such as the Chinese New Year (春节, Chūnjié) or the Japanese term for year (年, toshi), and is a fundamental component in writing dates and expressing durations across these languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5E74 |
| 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 | 年 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 年 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xB9 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5E74 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005E74 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5e74 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A67E |
| kCCCII | 213C65 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4821 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4821 |
| kCangjie | OQ |
| kCantonese | nin4 |
| kCihaiT | 483.601 |
| kCowles | 2895 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0648.020 |
| kDefinition | year; new-years; person's age |
| kEACC | 213C65 |
| kFanqie | 奴顚 |
| kFenn | 37A |
| kFennIndex | 362.10 363.01 |
| kFourCornerCode | 8050.0 |
| kGB0 | 3674 |
| kGB1 | 3674 |
| kGradeLevel | 1 |
| kGSR | 0364a |
| kHangul | 년:0E 연:0 |
| kHanYu | 10037.060 |
| kHanyuPinlu | nián(5553) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10037.060:nián,nìng |
| kHKGlyph | 1180 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0648.020 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10037.060 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0340.010 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-446A |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A67E |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-472F |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-D4E6 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5234 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4821 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-537B |
| kJapanese | ネン デン デイ ニョウ とし みのり よわい |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:444 |
| kJapaneseKun | TOSHI MINORU YOWAI |
| kJapaneseOn | NEN |
| kJis0 | 3915 |
| kKangXi | 0340.010 |
| kKorean | NYEN |
| kLau | 2381 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 1628 |
| kMandarin | nián |
| kMatthews | 4711 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2086 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ010944 MJ010944:E0101 MJ010945:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 09168 09168:E0101 |
| kNelson | 0188 |
| kPhonetic | 977 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+3301+51.3.3 |
| kRSUnicode | 51.3 |
| kSBGY | 134.45 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 197.03 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | nián粵nin4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 1628 |
| kTang | *nen |
| kTGHZ2013 | 266.020:nián |
| kTotalStrokes | 6 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | nên |
| kXerox | 241:125 |
| kXHC1983 | 0830.030:nián |