U+5E94 "应" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

应

U+5E94 "应" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "should," "ought to," "to respond," or "to answer," and it is widely used in modern Mandarin Chinese as both a verb and an auxiliary verb to indicate obligation, necessity, or a proper reaction. It is also a common component in compound words, such as "应该" (yīnggāi, meaning "should" or "ought to") and "反应" (fǎnyìng, meaning "reaction" or "response"), and it carries nuances of appropriateness or coping with a situation. Historically, the character derives from the radical "广" (representing a building or shelter) combined with components suggesting inner thought or obligation, and it appears frequently in classical texts as well as everyday writing. As a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideograph, it is encoded in the Unicode standard to represent this shared character across East Asian languages, where it may also serve in Japanese as "ō" or "kotaeru" and in Korean as "eung" with similar semantic range

General Properties

Code Point	U+5E94
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	应
HTML Hex Encoding	应
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0xBA 0x94
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5E94
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005E94
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5e94

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

kCCCII	273F4A
kCangjie	IFM
kCantonese	jing3
kDefinition	should, ought to, must
kEACC	273F4A
kFourCornerCode	0021
kGB0	5106
kHanYu	20875.140
kHanyuPinlu	yīng(1045) yìng(400) ying(213)
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	20875.140
kIRGKangXi	0344.051
kIRG_GSource	G0-5326
kTGH	2013:836
kKangXi	0344.051
kMainlandTelegraph	2019
kMandarin	yīng
kPhonetic	1581
kRSUnicode	53.4
kSimplifiedVariant	"应" U+5E94 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	199.13
kTGHZ2013	438.150:yīng 440.150:yìng
kTotalStrokes	7
kTraditionalVariant	"应" U+5E94 CJK Unified Ideograph-# "應" U+61C9 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	1383.050:yīng 1388.040:yìng