U+793C "礼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

礼

U+793C "礼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "ceremony," "ritual," "courtesy," or "propriety," and it holds deep cultural and philosophical significance in East Asian traditions, especially within Confucianism. The character is composed of the radical "示" (礻), which relates to spirits or divinity, and the component "乚," which suggests a kneeling or bending posture, together evoking the concept of reverent or proper conduct in social and religious contexts. In modern usage, it appears in words like "礼物" (present/gift) and "礼貌" (politeness), and it is commonly used in both Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean scripts. Its representation as a CJK Unified Ideograph means it is encoded for standard use across multiple languages in the Unicode standard, reflecting its integral role in written communication throughout East Asia.

General Properties

Code Point	U+793C
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	礼
HTML Hex Encoding	礼
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0xA4 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding	0x793C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000793C
C/C++/Java Escape	\u793c

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

kCCCII	226664
kCNS1986	E-2433
kCNS1992	3-2433
kCangjie	IFU
kCantonese	lai5
kCowles	2206
kDaeJaweon	1256.280
kDefinition	social custom; manners; courtesy; rites
kEACC	274E7C
kFanqie	盧啓
kFennIndex	296.05
kFourCornerCode	3221.0
kGB0	3281
kHangul	례:N
kHanYu	42385.020
kHanyuPinlu	lǐ(114)
kIICore	AGJ
kIRGDaeJaweon	1256.280
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	42385.020
kIRGKangXi	0839.220
kIRG_GSource	G0-4071
kIRG_HSource	H-FEF7
kIRG_JSource	J0-4E69
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-6112
kIRG_KSource	K2-4D6B
kIRG_TSource	T3-2433
kIRG_VSource	V1-607B
kJapanese	レイライリいや
kJoyoKanji	2010
kKoreanName	2015
kTGH	2013:318
kJapaneseKun	UYA
kJapaneseOn	REI RAI
kJis0	4673
kKangXi	0839.220
kKorean	LYEY
kMainlandTelegraph	4409
kMandarin	lǐ
kMatthews	3886
kMeyerWempe	1465
kMojiJoho	MJ018750 MJ030210:FE00 MJ018750:E0102 MJ030210:E0103
kMorohashi	24626' 24626:FE00 24626':E0102 24626:E0103
kNelson	3229 3259
kPhonetic	771
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+4017+5.1.4 C+4017+113.4.1
kRSUnicode	113.1
kSBGY	268.12
kSemanticVariant	U+FA18<kMatthews U+79AE<kMatthews,kMeyerWempe
kSimplifiedVariant	"礼" U+793C CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	478.06
kTGHZ2013	215.190:lǐ
kTotalStrokes	5
kTraditionalVariant	"礼" U+793C CJK Unified Ideograph-# "禮" U+79AE CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	GHJ
kVietnamese	lễ
kXHC1983	0692.130:lǐ