U+6B5F "歟" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
歟
U+6B5F "歟" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character used in Classical Chinese and Japanese, where it functions as a sentence-final particle expressing a rhetorical or exclamatory question, similar in meaning to "I wonder" or "is it not?" It is composed of the radical "欠" (meaning "to yawn" or "to lack") on the right side, combined with the phonetic component "與" on the left, which also contributes the basic meaning of "with" or "and." In modern usage, this character is largely obsolete in Simplified Chinese but appears in literary texts, calligraphy, and certain specialized contexts in both Chinese and Japanese writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+6B5F |
| 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 | 歟 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 歟 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0xAD 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x6B5F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00006B5F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u6b5f |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C26A |
| kCCCII | 21457E |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7656 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7656 |
| kCangjie | HCNO |
| kCantonese | jyu4 |
| kCihaiT | 732.204 |
| kCowles | 4880 |
| kDefinition | a final particle used to express admiration, doubt, surprise, or to mark a question |
| kEACC | 21457E |
| kFanqie | 以諸 余吕 羊洳 |
| kFourCornerCode | 7788.2 |
| kGB1 | 7603 |
| kGSR | 0089e |
| kHangul | 여:0N |
| kHanYu | 32152.100 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 32152.100:yú |
| kHKGlyph | 2047 |
| kIICore | ATHKP |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 32152.100 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0573.010 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-6C23 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C26A |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-5D43 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F8CB |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6622 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7656 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-5B30 |
| kJapanese | ヨ か や |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | KA YA |
| kJapaneseOn | YO |
| kJis0 | 6135 |
| kKangXi | 0573.010 |
| kKorean | YE |
| kMandarin | yú |
| kMatthews | 7616 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3629 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ014819 |
| kMorohashi | 16226 |
| kNelson | 2427 |
| kPhonetic | 1616 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+5346+76.4.13 |
| kRSUnicode | 76.14 |
| kSBGY | 068.08 256.42 363.29 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "欤" U+6B24 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 342.11 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | yú粵jyu4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 2968 |
| kTotalStrokes | 17 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | ru |
| kXerox | 272:256 |
| kXHC1983 | 1407.081:yú |