U+69D8 "様" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+69D8 "様" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character originally derived from ancient scripts, where it functions as a Japanese kanji meaning "formal appearance," "condition," "way," or "respectful honorific" and is commonly used in modern Japanese as a suffix for names, such as in "sama" to indicate politeness or reverence. In Chinese, its traditional form is "樣" (simplified: "样"), which primarily means "manner," "style," or "sample," though it appears in historical texts and contexts outside of regular simplified Chinese usage. This character is encoded in the CJK Unified Ideographs block under the international Unicode standard, representing a shared tradition across multiple East Asian writing systems despite varied linguistic applications.

General Properties

Code Point U+69D8
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 様
HTML Hex Encoding 様
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE6 0xA7 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding 0x69D8
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000069D8
C/C++/Java Escape \u69d8

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

kCNS1986 E-4C54
kCNS1992 3-4C54
kCangjie XDTGE
kCantonese joeng4
kDefinition shape, form, pattern, style
kEACC 4B4544
kFourCornerCode 4893.2
kHanYu 21284.061
kIICore AJ
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 21284.061
kIRGKangXi 0546.251
kIRG_GSource GE-3D60
kIRG_JSource J0-4D4D
kIRG_KPSource KP1-4CE6
kIRG_TSource T3-4C54
kJapanese ヨウ ショウ ゾウ さま ざま
kJoyoKanji 2010
kJapaneseKun SAMA ZAMA
kJapaneseOn YOU SHOU
kJis0 4545
kKangXi 0546.251
kMandarin yàng
kMojiJoho MJ014355
kMorohashi 15352'
kNelson 2341
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+3895+75.4.10
kRSUnicode 75.10
kTotalStrokes 14
kUnihanCore2020 J