U+7109 "焉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

焉

U+7109 "焉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character with a rich history, functioning as both a content word and a grammatical particle in classical and modern Chinese. Traditionally, its core meaning relates to the concept of "how," "why," or "where," often used in interrogative or exclamatory contexts, such as in the phrase "焉能" meaning "how can it be." It also serves as a pronoun or particle indicating a place, as in "心不在焉" meaning "the mind is not there" or "absent-minded." Beyond Chinese, the character appears in Japanese as part of the kanji system, where it carries similar meanings, and it is encoded in the Unicode standard under the CJK Unified Ideographs block, representing a distinct and essential component of East Asian writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+7109
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	焉
HTML Hex Encoding	焉
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0x84 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding	0x7109
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00007109
C/C++/Java Escape	\u7109

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

kBigFive	B26A
kCCCII	21495F
kCNS1986	1-5B6F
kCNS1992	1-5B6F
kCangjie	MYLF
kCantonese	jin1
kCihaiT	847.501
kCowles	1337 1359
kDaeJaweon	1081.040
kDefinition	thereupon, then; how? why? where?
kEACC	21495F
kFanqie	謁言於乾有乾
kFenn	127E
kFennIndex	622.08
kFourCornerCode	1032.7
kGB0	4941
kGB1	4941
kGSR	0200a
kHangul	언:0E
kHanYu	32206.140
kHanyuPinyin	32206.140:yān,yí
kHKGlyph	2391
kIICore	AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	1081.040
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	32206.140
kIRGKangXi	0672.210
kIRG_GSource	G0-5149
kIRG_HSource	HB1-B26A
kIRG_JSource	J0-5F61
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-F8BB
kIRG_KSource	K0-656A
kIRG_TSource	T1-5B6F
kIRG_VSource	V1-5E28
kJapanese	エンオンイいずくんぞここにこれ
kKoreanEducationHanja	2007
kTGH	2013:2169
kJapaneseKun	IZUKUNSO SUNAWACHI KORE
kJapaneseOn	EN I
kJis0	6365
kKangXi	0672.210
kKarlgren	243
kKorean	EN
kMainlandTelegraph	3547
kMandarin	yān
kMatthews	7330
kMeyerWempe	885 896d
kMojiJoho	MJ016416
kMorohashi	19076
kNelson	0060
kPhonetic	201 1576
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+5564+86.4.7
kRSUnicode	86.7
kSBGY	116.01 143.31 143.38
kSMSZD2003Index	397.05
kSMSZD2003Readings	yān粵jin4 yān粵jin1
kTaiwanTelegraph	8696
kTang	*qyɛn hyɛn
kTGHZ2013	421.070:yān
kTotalStrokes	11
kUnihanCore2020	GHJKMPT
kVietnamese	vờn
kXerox	252:372
kXHC1983	1322.070:yān