U+5E7E "幾" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+5E7E "幾" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that primarily conveys the meanings of "how many," "a few," or "several," often used to indicate an indefinite small number or to ask about quantity and magnitude. In its classical usage, it also carries a more nuanced sense of "almost" or "nearly" when employed in certain literary contexts, as seen in compounds like 幾乎 (jīhū), meaning "almost." The character is structurally composed of the "幺" (silk) component atop "戍" (guard), but its simplified counterpart "几" is now standard in mainland China, while "幾" remains in use in traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point U+5E7E
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 幾
HTML Hex Encoding 幾
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0xB9 0xBE
UTF-16 Encoding 0x5E7E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00005E7E
C/C++/Java Escape \u5e7e

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Ideographic
East Asian Width Wide
Script Han
Script Extensions Han
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break OLetter
Ideographic Yes
Unified Ideograph Yes

Unihan Properties

kBigFive B458
kCCCII 213C6B
kCNS1986 1-5E7D
kCNS1992 1-5E7D
kCangjie VIHI
kCantonese gei2
kCihaiT 486.202
kCowles 1610 1624
kDaeJaweon 0652.030
kDefinition how many? how much?; a few, some
kEACC 213C6B
kFanqie 渠希 居依 居狶 其旣
kFenn 346A
kFennIndex 30.11 34.04
kFourCornerCode 2225.3
kGB1 2824
kGradeLevel 1
kGSR 0547a
kHangul 기:0E
kHanYu 21095.080
kHanyuPinlu jǐ(2512)
kHanyuPinyin 21095.080:jī,jǐ,jì,qí
kHKGlyph 1187
kIICore ATJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon 0652.030
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 21095.080
kIRGKangXi 0342.140
kIRG_GSource G1-3C38
kIRG_HSource HB1-B458
kIRG_JSource J0-3476
kIRG_KPSource KP0-D2C6
kIRG_KSource K0-507A
kIRG_TSource T1-5E7D
kJapanese キ ケ ゲ いく ちかい ほとんど
kJoyoKanji 2010
kKoreanEducationHanja 2007
kJapaneseKun IKU KIZASHI CHIKAI
kJapaneseOn KI
kJis0 2086
kKangXi 0342.140
kKarlgren 328
kKorean KI
kLau 881 882
kMandarin
kMatthews 409
kMeyerWempe 1101 1107
kMojiJoho MJ010958 MJ010958:E0102 MJ057436:E0103 MJ057437:E0104
kMorohashi 09208 09208:E0102
kNelson 1496
kPhonetic 598
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+1586+52.3.9 V+13700+52.3.9
kRSUnicode 52.9
kSBGY 065.16 065.31 255.05 361.39
kSimplifiedVariant "几" U+51E0 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index 199.01 236.10
kSMSZD2003Readings jǐ粵gei2 jī粵gei1
kSpecializedSemanticVariant U+51E0<kFenn
kTaiwanTelegraph 1637
kTang *giə̌i giəi
kTotalStrokes 12
kUnihanCore2020 HJKMPT
kXerox 241:311
kXHC1983 0521.051:jī 0531.041:jǐ