U+83AB "莫" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
莫
U+83AB "莫" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character commonly used in written Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, where it carries the primary meaning of "not" or "do not," functioning as a negative imperative or adverb. It also conveys senses of "none," "nothing," or "cannot," and appears in compound words such as 莫大 (mòdà, meaning "extremely great") and 莫名其妙 (mò míng qí miào, meaning "baffling" or "unable to make sense of something"). Visually, it is composed of the radical 艹 (grass) atop the element 日 (sun) over 大 (big), though its etymology traces back to an ancient pictograph depicting the sun setting among grasses, symbolizing the concept of "evening" or "dusk," from which its abstract senses of negation evolved.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+83AB |
| 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 | 莫 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 莫 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x8E 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x83AB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000083AB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u83ab |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B2F6 |
| kCCCII | 21552B |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5C7B |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5C7B |
| kCangjie | TAK |
| kCantonese | mok6 |
| kCihaiT | 1141.303 |
| kCowles | 2741 2749 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1494.130 |
| kDefinition | do not, is not, can not; negative |
| kEACC | 21552B |
| kFanqie | 慕各 |
| kFenn | 453C |
| kFennIndex | 348.07 351.05 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4443.0 |
| kGB0 | 3610 |
| kGB1 | 3610 |
| kGSR | 0802a |
| kHangul | 막:0E |
| kHanYu | 53217.150 |
| kHanyuPinlu | mò(42) mo(21) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53217.150:mù,mò |
| kHKGlyph | 3460 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1494.130 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53217.150 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1035.130 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-442A |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B2F6 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-477C |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-DAB7 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5830 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5C7B |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-652A |
| kJapanese | バク ボ マク モ ミャク ベキ くれ なかれ ない |
| kJinmeiyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:1824 |
| kJapaneseKun | KURE NAI NAKARE |
| kJapaneseOn | BO BAKU MAKU |
| kJis0 | 3992 |
| kKangXi | 1035.130 |
| kKorean | MAK MO |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5459 |
| kMandarin | mò |
| kMatthews | 4557 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1874 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ022034 MJ022034:E0101 MJ022035:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 31078:E0102 |
| kNelson | 3954 |
| kPhonetic | 921 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+3378+140.3.7 |
| kRSUnicode | 140.7 |
| kSBGY | 504.43 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 583.13 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | mò粵mok6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5459 |
| kTang | *mɑk |
| kTGHZ2013 | 257.010:mò |
| kTotalStrokes | 10 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | mạc |
| kXerox | 246:321 |
| kXHC1983 | 0802.040:mò 0806.071:mù |