U+8009 "耉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
耉
U+8009 "耉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare Chinese character that represents the concept of an elderly person, specifically an aged man or elder, and is a variant form of the more common character "耆" which also denotes old age. This character is composed of the radical "老" (old) and a phonetic component, and it appears in classical Chinese texts where it is used to describe someone who is advanced in years, often with connotations of wisdom and respect associated with seniority. In modern usage, it is largely archaic and not commonly found in everyday Chinese writing, though it remains encoded in the Unicode standard to support historical and specialized linguistic documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8009 |
| 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 | 耉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 耉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x80 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8009 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008009 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8009 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCangjie | JKYR |
| kCantonese | gau2 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1409.100 |
| kDefinition | old age |
| kHangul | 구:0 |
| kHanYu | 42781.050 |
| kIICore | AP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1409.100 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42781.050 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0961.081 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-4837 |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-068043 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-D1A6 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-4F3E |
| kIRG_TSource | T4-2B25 |
| kJapanese | ク コウ |
| kJapaneseKun | OIRU |
| kJapaneseOn | KOU KU |
| kKangXi | 0961.081 |
| kKorean | KWU |
| kMandarin | gǒu |
| kMojiJoho | MJ068043 |
| kPhonetic | 673 |
| kRSUnicode | 125.5 |
| kTotalStrokes | 9 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | KP |