U+7F8E "美" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

美

U+7F8E "美" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a widely used logogram in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean that primarily conveys the meaning of "beauty," "beautiful," or "aesthetic." It is composed of two main components: the top part representing a sheep or goat, which in ancient Chinese culture was a symbol of auspiciousness and goodness, and the bottom part representing "big" or "great," together suggesting the idea that something large or grand in a positive or pleasing way is beautiful. This character appears in common words such as 美好 (měihǎo) meaning "beautiful" or "fine," 美国 (Měiguó) meaning "America," and 美食 (měishí) meaning "delicious food." Its presence across multiple East Asian languages and its deep cultural associations with harmony, virtue, and sensory pleasure make it a fundamental and positive symbol in written communication.

General Properties

Code Point	U+7F8E
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	美
HTML Hex Encoding	美
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0xBE 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding	0x7F8E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00007F8E
C/C++/Java Escape	\u7f8e

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	ACFC
kCCCII	21523B
kCNS1986	1-5321
kCNS1992	1-5321
kCangjie	TGK
kCantonese	mei5
kCihaiT	1069.501
kCowles	2661
kDaeJaweon	1393.170
kDefinition	beautiful, pretty; pleasing
kEACC	21523B
kFanqie	無鄙
kFenn	151B
kFennIndex	334.03
kFourCornerCode	8043.1
kGB0	3532
kGB1	3532
kGradeLevel	2
kGSR	0568a
kHangul	미:0E
kHanYu	53126.050
kHanyuPinlu	měi(466)
kHanyuPinyin	53126.050:měi
kHKGlyph	3195
kIICore	AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	1393.170
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53126.050
kIRGKangXi	0951.100
kIRG_GSource	G0-4340
kIRG_HSource	HB1-ACFC
kIRG_JSource	J0-487E
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-DCA5
kIRG_KSource	K0-5A38
kIRG_TSource	T1-5321
kIRG_VSource	V1-6346
kJapanese	ビミうつくしいほめるよい
kJoyoKanji	2010
kKoreanEducationHanja	2007
kTGH	2013:1642
kJapaneseKun	UTSUKUSHII YOI HOMERU
kJapaneseOn	BI MI
kJis0	4094
kKangXi	0951.100
kKarlgren	211
kKorean	MI
kLau	2126
kMainlandTelegraph	5019
kMandarin	měi
kMatthews	4406
kMeyerWempe	1808
kMojiJoho	MJ020594
kMorohashi	28435
kNelson	3658
kPhonetic	892
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+3474+37.3.6 C+3474+123.6.3
kRSUnicode	123.3
kSBGY	247.16
kSemanticVariant	U+7F99<kMeyerWempe
kSMSZD2003Index	537.07 150.03
kSMSZD2003Readings	měi粵mei5
kTaiwanTelegraph	5019
kTang	*myǐ
kTGHZ2013	246.140:měi
kTotalStrokes	9
kUnihanCore2020	GHJKMPT
kVietnamese	mỉ
kXerox	241:354
kXHC1983	0773.080:měi