U+8A9E "語" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
語
U+8A9E "語" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a logogram used in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) scripts, where it represents the concept of language, speech, or word. In Chinese, it is pronounced as "yǔ" in Mandarin and commonly appears in terms like "語言" (language) and "英語" (English language). In Japanese, it is read as "go" or "kata" and is a key component in words such as "言語" (gengo, meaning language) and "日本語" (Nihongo, meaning Japanese language). The character's structure combines the radical for "言" (speech) with the phonetic component "吾" (I/self), symbolizing spoken expression. It is deeply embedded in East Asian writing systems and is a high-frequency character in both literary and everyday contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8A9E |
| 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 | 語 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 語 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xAA 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8A9E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008A9E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8a9e |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | BB79 |
| kCCCII | 21586C |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6B23 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6B23 |
| kCangjie | YRMMR |
| kCantonese | jyu5 |
| kCihaiT | 1245.603 |
| kCowles | 4890 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1628.020 |
| kDefinition | language, words; saying, expression |
| kEACC | 21586C |
| kFanqie | 魚巨 牛倨 |
| kFenn | 763A |
| kFennIndex | 221.07 645.05 646.05 |
| kFourCornerCode | 0166.1 |
| kGB1 | 5179 |
| kGradeLevel | 2 |
| kGSR | 0058t |
| kHangul | 어:0E |
| kHanYu | 63974.090 |
| kHanyuPinlu | yǔ(261) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 63974.090:yǔ,yù |
| kHKGlyph | 3802 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1628.020 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 63974.090 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1163.080 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-536F |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-BB79 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-386C |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F8AF |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-655E |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6B23 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-6736 |
| kJapanese | ゴ ギョ かたる かたらう ことば つげる |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kJapaneseKun | KATARU KOTOBA TSUGERU |
| kJapaneseOn | GO GYO |
| kJis0 | 2476 |
| kKangXi | 1163.080 |
| kKorean | E |
| kLau | 3535 |
| kMandarin | yǔ |
| kMatthews | 7651 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3637 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ024515 |
| kMorohashi | 35533 |
| kNelson | 4374 |
| kPhonetic | 947 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1952+149.7.7 |
| kRSUnicode | 149.7 |
| kSBGY | 256.05 361.43 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "语" U+8BED CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 648.16 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | yǔ粵jyu5 yù粵jyu6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 6133 |
| kTang | *ngiǔ ngiù |
| kTotalStrokes | 14 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | ngữ |
| kXerox | 243:155 |