U+864E "虎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+864E "虎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a logogram representing the Chinese character for "tiger," a symbol deeply rooted in East Asian culture and language. This character originated from ancient Chinese oracle bone script, where it depicted a stylized image of a tiger, and over millennia, it evolved into its modern standardized form used in both Traditional and Simplified Chinese, as well as Japanese Kanji and Korean Hanja. In cultural contexts, "虎" often conveys meanings of bravery, power, and protection, appearing frequently in idioms, zodiac symbolism, and art, while in a technical sense, it is encoded in the Unicode Standard under the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) Unified Ideographs block, ensuring consistent digital representation across different systems and platforms.

General Properties

Code Point U+864E
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 虎
HTML Hex Encoding 虎
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0x99 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding 0x864E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000864E
C/C++/Java Escape \u864e

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 AAEA
kCCCII 215643
kCNS1986 1-4F4D
kCNS1992 1-4F4D
kCangjie YPHU
kCantonese fu2
kCihaiT 1182.204
kCowles 815
kDaeJaweon 1539.230
kDefinition tiger; brave, fierce; surname
kEACC 215643
kFanqie 呼古
kFenn 203C
kFennIndex 199.07
kFourCornerCode 2121.7
kGB0 2702
kGB1 2702
kGradeLevel 2
kGSR 0057b
kHangul 호:0E
kHanYu 42819.020
kHanyuPinlu hǔ(171) hu(19)
kHanyuPinyin 42819.020:hǔ,hù
kHKGlyph 3574
kIICore AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon 1539.230
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 42819.020
kIRGKangXi 1073.030
kIRG_GSource G0-3B22
kIRG_HSource HB1-AAEA
kIRG_JSource J0-3857
kIRG_KPSource KP0-F4B6
kIRG_KSource K0-7B5B
kIRG_TSource T1-4F4D
kIRG_VSource V1-656B
kJapanese コ ク とら
kJoyoKanji 2010
kKoreanEducationHanja 2007
kTGH 2013:1071
kJapaneseKun TORA
kJapaneseOn KO
kJis0 2455
kKangXi 1073.030
kKarlgren 87
kKorean HO
kLau 728
kMainlandTelegraph 5706
kMandarin
kMatthews 2161
kMeyerWempe 548
kMojiJoho MJ023272 MJ023272:E0102 MJ023273:E0103 MJ058583:E0108
kMorohashi 32675 32675:E0102
kNelson 4105
kPhonetic 383
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+1931+10.2.6 C+1931+141.6.2 V+20210+16.2.6 V+20210+141.6.2
kRSUnicode 141.2
kSBGY 266.33
kSMSZD2003Index 606.15 45.12
kSMSZD2003Readings hǔ粵fu2
kTaiwanTelegraph 5706
kTang *xǒ
kTGHZ2013 141.110:hǔ
kTotalStrokes 8
kUnihanCore2020 GHJKMPT
kVietnamese hổ
kXerox 246:104
kXHC1983 0475.060,0476.021:hǔ 0477.140:hù