U+5FA1 "御" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
御
U+5FA1 "御" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character with deep historical and cultural significance, primarily meaning "to drive" or "to control," such as driving a chariot or managing affairs, and it also carries the honorific sense of "imperial" in compounds like "御前" (in the imperial presence) or "御用" (imperial use). Originating from ancient Chinese script, where it depicted a person with a rope or whip controlling a horse, the character evolved to encompass broader notions of governance and respect. It appears across East Asian languages including Japanese, where it is used as a respectful prefix (e.g., 御飯 for "rice") and Korean (as "어" in hanja), reflecting its enduring role in contexts of authority, reverence, and tradition.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5FA1 |
| 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 | 御 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 御 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xBE 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5FA1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005FA1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5fa1 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B173 |
| kCCCII | 213D6D |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5A39 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5A39 |
| kCangjie | HOOML |
| kCantonese | jyu6 |
| kCihaiT | 515.402 |
| kCowles | 4902 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0693.050 |
| kDefinition | drive, ride; chariot; manage |
| kEACC | 2D4E79 |
| kFanqie | 牛倨 |
| kFenn | 307F |
| kFennIndex | 648.04 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2722.0 |
| kGB0 | 5189 |
| kGB1 | 5189 |
| kGSR | 0060l |
| kHangul | 어:0E |
| kHanYu | 20832.160 |
| kHanyuPinlu | yù(42) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 20832.160:yù,yà |
| kHKGlyph | 1281 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0693.050 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 20832.160 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0368.230 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5379 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B173 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3866 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F8AA |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6559 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5A39 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-546D |
| kJapanese | ギョ ゴ ガ ゲ おん おさめる ふせぐ お おおん み |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:2704 |
| kJapaneseKun | ON OSAMERU |
| kJapaneseOn | GYO GO |
| kJis0 | 2470 |
| kKangXi | 0368.230 |
| kKorean | E A |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 1785 |
| kMandarin | yù |
| kMatthews | 7664 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3647 3650d |
| kMojiJoho | MJ011326 MJ011325:E0103 MJ057489:E0104 MJ011324:E0105 MJ011326:E0106 |
| kMorohashi | 10157 10157:E0106 |
| kNelson | 1628 |
| kPhonetic | 950 1153 1618 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1946+60.3.9 V+20117+60.3.8 |
| kRSUnicode | 60.8 |
| kSBGY | 361.41 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+99AD<kMatthews |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "御" U+5FA1 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 214.07 78.14 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | yù粵jyu6 yà粵ngaa6 |
| kSpecializedSemanticVariant | U+99AD<kMeyerWempe |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 1785 |
| kTang | *ngiù |
| kTGHZ2013 | 449.130,449.140:yù |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "御" U+5FA1 CJK Unified Ideograph-# "禦" U+79A6 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | ngự |
| kXerox | 261:061 |
| kXHC1983 | 1416.120:yù |