U+723E "爾" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
爾
U+723E "爾" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that carries the meanings of "you," "thus," or "that," and historically also functioned as a second-person pronoun in classical Chinese, equivalent to "you" or "your." It is composed of the radical 爻 (meaning "lines" or "trigram") and other elements, reflecting its ancient usage in philosophical and literary texts such as the Confucian classics. In modern usage, it appears in compound words like 爾後 (meaning "thereafter" or "later") and is distinguished from its simplified counterpart "尔" used in simplified Chinese script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+723E |
| 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 | 爾 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 爾 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0x88 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x723E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000723E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u723e |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | BAB8 |
| kCCCII | 214A45 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-695F |
| kCNS1992 | 1-695F |
| kCangjie | MFBK |
| kCantonese | ji5 |
| kCihaiT | 864.601 |
| kCowles | 1284 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1104.030 |
| kDefinition | you; that, those; final particle |
| kEACC | 214A45 |
| kFanqie | 兒氏 |
| kFenn | 564F |
| kFennIndex | 125.04 |
| kFourCornerCode | 1022.7 |
| kGB1 | 2291 |
| kGSR | 0359a |
| kHangul | 이:0N |
| kHanYu | 10027.010 |
| kHanyuPinlu | ěr(26) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10027.010:ěr,mǐ,nǐ |
| kHKGlyph | 2459 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1104.030 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10027.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0691.040 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-367B |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-BAB8 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3C24 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-FCB0 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6C33 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-695F |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-5E51 |
| kJapanese | ジ ニ デイ ナイ しかり なんじ のみ その |
| kJinmeiyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | NANJI SONO SHIKARI |
| kJapaneseOn | JI NI |
| kJis0 | 2804 |
| kKangXi | 0691.040 |
| kKarlgren | 13 |
| kKorean | I |
| kMandarin | ěr |
| kMatthews | 1754 |
| kMeyerWempe | 862d |
| kMojiJoho | MJ016762 MJ016762:E0102 MJ016763:E0103 |
| kMorohashi | 19750 19750:E0102 |
| kNelson | 0069 0575 1356 |
| kPhonetic | 1547 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2256+89.4.10 V+20169+89.4.10 |
| kRSUnicode | 89.10 |
| kSBGY | 245.10 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+5C12<kMatthews U+5C14<kMatthews |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "尔" U+5C14 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 408.05 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | ěr粵ji5 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 3643 |
| kTang | *njiɛ̌ njiɛ̌ |
| kTotalStrokes | 14 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | nhãi |
| kXerox | 243:331 |
| kXHC1983 | 0288.051:ěr |