U+600E "怎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
怎
U+600E "怎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily used in modern Mandarin and Japanese to convey the meaning of "how" or "why" when forming interrogative phrases. As a compound ideograph, it combines the radical for "heart" or "mind" (心) with a phonetic component associated with "then" or "thus" (乍), suggesting a mental process of questioning or reasoning. This character appears frequently in common words like "怎么" (how, what) and "怎样" (how, in what way), playing an essential role in daily conversation and written texts to express inquiry about methods, reasons, or conditions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+600E |
| 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 | 怎 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 怎 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0x80 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x600E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000600E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u600e |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | ABE7 |
| kCCCII | 213E35 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-512B |
| kCNS1992 | 1-512B |
| kCangjie | HSP |
| kCantonese | zam2 |
| kCihaiT | 528.305 |
| kCowles | 130 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0708.010 |
| kDefinition | what? why? how? |
| kEACC | 213E35 |
| kFenn | 150A |
| kFennIndex | 550.02 |
| kFourCornerCode | 8033.1 |
| kGB0 | 5285 |
| kGB1 | 5285 |
| kGradeLevel | 2 |
| kHanYu | 42280.100 |
| kHanyuPinlu | zěn(2090) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 42280.100:zěn |
| kHKGlyph | 1319 |
| kIICore | AGTHM |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0708.010 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42280.100 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0379.170 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5475 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-ABE7 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-5763 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-42AD |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-3173 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-512B |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-5529 |
| kJapanese | ソ シン ソウ いかで |
| kTGH | 2013:1543 |
| kJapaneseKun | IKADE |
| kJapaneseOn | SHIN SO |
| kJis0 | 5567 |
| kKangXi | 0379.170 |
| kLau | 1325 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 1827 |
| kMandarin | zěn |
| kMatthews | 6762 |
| kMeyerWempe | 140a 3265b |
| kMojiJoho | MJ011448 |
| kMorohashi | 10431 |
| kPhonetic | 10 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+4814+61.4.5 |
| kRSUnicode | 61.5 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 219.16 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | zěn粵zam2 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 1827 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 461.010:zěn |
| kTotalStrokes | 9 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJMT |
| kVietnamese | chẩn |
| kXerox | 242:042 |
| kXHC1983 | 1445.080:zěn |