U+5F85 "待" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
待
U+5F85 "待" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to wait," "to treat," or "to entertain," and is used in both modern and classical East Asian writing systems, including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Composed of the radical "彳" (meaning "step" or "movement") on the left and the phonetic component "寺" on the right, its historical etymology relates to the act of awaiting or handling a situation with a sense of movement or approach. In common usage, it appears in words like "等待" (děngdài, to wait) and "对待" (duìdài, to treat or handle), making it a frequent character in everyday language that conveys temporal patience or interpersonal relations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5F85 |
| 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 | 待 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 待 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xBE 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5F85 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005F85 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5f85 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | ABDD |
| kCCCII | 213D60 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5121 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5121 |
| kCangjie | HOGDI |
| kCantonese | doi6 |
| kCihaiT | 510.304 |
| kCowles | 4223 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0686.110 |
| kDefinition | treat, entertain, receive; wait |
| kEACC | 213D60 |
| kFanqie | 徒亥 |
| kFenn | 46C |
| kFennIndex | 490.01 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2424.1 |
| kGB0 | 2093 |
| kGB1 | 2093 |
| kGradeLevel | 2 |
| kGSR | 0961g' |
| kHangul | 대:0E |
| kHanYu | 20818.070 |
| kHanyuPinlu | dài(342) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 20818.070:dài,dāi |
| kHKGlyph | 1269 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0686.110 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 20818.070 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0366.050 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-347D |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-ABDD |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4254 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-D6FE |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5362 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5121 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-5463 |
| kJapanese | タイ ダイ まつ |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:1580 |
| kJapaneseKun | MATSU |
| kJapaneseOn | TAI DAI |
| kJis0 | 3452 |
| kKangXi | 0366.050 |
| kKorean | TAY |
| kLau | 592 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 1769 |
| kMandarin | dài |
| kMatthews | 6002 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3191 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ011295 |
| kMorohashi | 10085 |
| kNelson | 1609 |
| kPhonetic | 149 1371 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2868+60.3.6 |
| kRSUnicode | 60.6 |
| kSBGY | 274.07 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 212.11 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | dài粵doi6 dāi粵doi6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 1769 |
| kTang | *dhə̌i |
| kTGHZ2013 | 062.110:dāi 063.150:dài |
| kTotalStrokes | 9 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | đãi |
| kXerox | 244:155 |
| kXHC1983 | 0204.010:dāi 0206.070:dài |