U+81EA "自" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+81EA "自" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a foundational Chinese character that primarily means "self," "oneself," or "from," and it is deeply embedded in East Asian languages including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Visually, the character resembles an eye with a prominent upward stroke, a form that ancient oracle bone script derived from depicting a nose, as people would point to their nose to indicate "self." This character appears in essential vocabulary such as "自己" meaning "one's own self" and "自由" meaning "freedom" or literally "from oneself," and it also functions as a radical in many other complex characters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+81EA |
| 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 | 自 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 自 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x87 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x81EA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000081EA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u81ea |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A6DB |
| kCCCII | 215426 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-485C |
| kCNS1992 | 1-485C |
| kCangjie | HBU |
| kCantonese | zi6 |
| kCihaiT | 1108.301 |
| kCowles | 4673 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1452.010 |
| kDefinition | self, private, personal; from; Kangxi radical 132 |
| kEACC | 215426 |
| kFanqie | 疾二 |
| kFenn | 852A |
| kFennIndex | 585.06 586.01 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2600.0 |
| kGB0 | 5552 |
| kGB1 | 5552 |
| kGradeLevel | 1 |
| kGSR | 1237m |
| kHangul | 자:0E |
| kHanYu | 53046.010 |
| kHanyuPinlu | zì(4664) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53046.010:zì |
| kHDZRadBreak | ⾃[U+2F83]:53046.010 |
| kHKGlyph | 3362 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1452.010 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53046.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1000.070 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5754 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A6DB |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3C2B |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E6BC |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6D3B |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-485C |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-6439 |
| kJapanese | ジ シ みずから おのずから より |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:477 |
| kJapaneseKun | MIZUKARA ONOZUKARA YORI |
| kJapaneseOn | SHI JI |
| kJis0 | 2811 |
| kKangXi | 1000.070 |
| kKorean | CA |
| kLau | 1445 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5261 |
| kMandarin | zì |
| kMatthews | 6960 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3537 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ021296 |
| kMorohashi | 30095 |
| kNelson | 3841 |
| kPhonetic | 146 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2263+132.6.0 |
| kRSUnicode | 132.0 |
| kSBGY | 355.48 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 564.03 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | zì粵zi6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5261 |
| kTang | *dzhì |
| kTGHZ2013 | 492.130:zì |
| kTotalStrokes | 6 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | tự |
| kXerox | 241:134 |
| kXHC1983 | 1534.060:zì |