U+80AF "肯" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
肯
U+80AF "肯" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (pronounced kěn in Mandarin) that primarily means "to agree," "to consent," or "to be willing," often used in expressions like 肯定 (kěndìng, meaning "certainly" or "affirmative"). It derives from a combination of the radical 肉 (meat/flesh) and a phonetic component, and in classical contexts it also referred to the skeletal structure, specifically the area where bone and flesh connect, giving rise to the idiom 中肯 (zhòngkěn, meaning "to hit the mark" or "to be pertinent"). In modern usage, it is a common character in both formal and informal Chinese writing, frequently appearing in everyday language to denote agreement or affirmation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+80AF |
| 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 | 肯 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 肯 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x82 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x80AF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000080AF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u80af |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | AAD6 |
| kCCCII | 215333 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4F39 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4F39 |
| kCangjie | YMB |
| kCantonese | hang2 |
| kCihaiT | 1090.303 |
| kCowles | 985 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1427.210 |
| kDefinition | willing; consent to, permit |
| kEACC | 215333 |
| kFanqie | 苦等 |
| kFenn | 130C |
| kFennIndex | 247.04 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2122.7 |
| kGB0 | 3147 |
| kGB1 | 3147 |
| kGradeLevel | 1 |
| kGSR | 0882b |
| kHangul | 긍:0E |
| kHanYu | 32048.040 |
| kHanyuPinlu | kěn(280) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 32048.040:kěn |
| kHKGlyph | 3284 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1427.210 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 32048.040 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0976.010 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3F4F |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-AAD6 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-394E |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-D2B5 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5069 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4F39 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-636C |
| kJapanese | コウ カイ あえて うべなう がえんじる |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:1067 |
| kJapaneseKun | UBENAU GAENJI AETE |
| kJapaneseOn | KOU KAI |
| kJis0 | 2546 |
| kKangXi | 0976.010 |
| kKarlgren | 314 |
| kKorean | KUNG |
| kLau | 1129 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5146 |
| kMandarin | kěn |
| kMatthews | 3334 |
| kMeyerWempe | 670 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ020956 |
| kMorohashi | 29311 |
| kNelson | 2432 |
| kPhonetic | 434 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2016+77.4.4 C+2016+130.4.4 |
| kRSUnicode | 130.4 |
| kSBGY | 321.04 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+808E<kSMSZD2003Index:T |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 550.05 343.06 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | kěn粵hang2 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5146 |
| kTang | *kə̌ng |
| kTGHZ2013 | 197.050:kěn |
| kTotalStrokes | 8 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | khẳng |
| kXerox | 243:341 |
| kXHC1983 | 0644.050:kěn |