U+8985 "覅" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
覅
U+8985 "覅" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare Chinese character that functions as a fusion of the characters "不" (meaning "not") and "要" (meaning "want"), semantically combining components to convey the meaning "don't need" or "must not" in certain dialects, particularly in Wu Chinese and other regional languages. It is structurally notable as a phonetic-semantic compound, with the left side representing negation and the right side indicating the sound, and it appears primarily in colloquial or dialectal written forms rather than in standard Mandarin. This character exemplifies how Unicode encodes non-standard but historically or regionally significant logographs that bridge spoken and written linguistic traditions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8985 |
| 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 | 覅 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 覅 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xA6 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8985 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008985 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8985 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | DFFA |
| kCCCII | 233055 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-4741 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-4741 |
| kCangjie | MVPHH |
| kCantonese | fiu3 |
| kCihaiT | 1226.502 |
| kEACC | 233055 |
| kFourCornerCode | 1742.0 |
| kGB3 | 6464 |
| kHanYu | 42807.130 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42807.130 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1128.321 |
| kIRG_GSource | G3-6060 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-DFFA |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-024205 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-5F54 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-4741 |
| kJapanese | キ |
| kKangXi | 1128.321 |
| kMandarin | fiào |
| kMojiJoho | MJ024205 |
| kMorohashi | 34780 |
| kRSUnicode | 146.7 |
| kTotalStrokes | 13 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |
| kXHC1983 | 0332.080:fiào |