U+72B9 "犹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
犹
U+72B9 "犹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that originally represents a type of monkey or a canine-like animal, and is commonly used in modern Chinese as a simplified form of the traditional character 猶. Its meanings have evolved to include concepts such as "still," "yet," "just like," and "as if," and it appears in important historical and philosophical texts like the Analects of Confucius, where it can denote hesitation or comparison. The character is composed of the radical 犭 (dog) for meaning and the phonetic component 尤 for sound, and it continues to be a common and versatile element in both written and spoken Chinese.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+72B9 |
| 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 | 犹 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 犹 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0x8A 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x72B9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000072B9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u72b9 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 225659 |
| kCNS1986 | E-2669 |
| kCNS1992 | 3-2669 |
| kCangjie | KHIKU |
| kCantonese | jau4 |
| kCihaiT | 874.401 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1119.130 |
| kDefinition | like, similar to, just like, as |
| kEACC | 274A79 |
| kFennIndex | 637.02 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4321.4 |
| kGB0 | 5144 |
| kHanYu | 21335.070 |
| kHanyuPinlu | yóu(57) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 21335.070:yòu,yóu |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1119.130 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21335.070 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0706.190 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-534C |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-603B |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-579E |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-4644 |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-2669 |
| kJapanese | ユウ ウ |
| kTGH | 2013:812 |
| kJapaneseKun | NAO |
| kJapaneseOn | YUU YOU |
| kJis0 | 6427 |
| kKangXi | 0706.190 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 3730 |
| kMandarin | yóu |
| kMojiJoho | MJ016900 |
| kMorohashi | 20259 |
| kPhonetic | 1511 1513A |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+5620+94.3.4 |
| kRSUnicode | 94.4 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+7336<kFenn |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "犹" U+72B9 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 415.09 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 443.060:yóu |
| kTotalStrokes | 7 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "犹" U+72B9 CJK Unified Ideograph-# "猶" U+7336 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GJ |
| kXHC1983 | 1397.090:yóu |