U+8D77 "起" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

起

U+8D77 "起" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a fundamental Chinese character that carries the core meaning of "to rise," "to start," or "to raise," often appearing in words like 起来 (qǐlái, "to get up") and 开始 (kāishǐ, "to begin"). Structurally, it combines the radical 走 (zǒu, meaning "to walk" or "run") on the left, which indicates motion, with the phonetic component 己 (jǐ) on the right, suggesting its pronunciation in Mandarin as "qǐ." This character is widely used in modern Chinese, Japanese, and Korean to denote initiation, emergence, or upward movement, and it is also found in historical texts and idioms, such as 起死回生 (qǐ sǐ huí shēng, "to bring someone back from the dead"). Its inclusion in the Unicode CJK Unified Ideographs block ensures consistent digital representation across platforms for approximately 1.4 billion speakers globally.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8D77
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	起
HTML Hex Encoding	起
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0xB5 0xB7
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8D77
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008D77
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8d77

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	B05F
kCCCII	215A4B
kCNS1986	1-5844
kCNS1992	1-5844
kCangjie	GORU
kCantonese	hei2
kCihaiT	1284.203
kCowles	1031
kDaeJaweon	1683.180
kDefinition	rise, stand up; go up; begin
kEACC	215A4B
kFanqie	墟里
kFenn	311A
kFennIndex	40.01
kFourCornerCode	4780.1
kGB0	3880
kGB1	3880
kGradeLevel	1
kGSR	0953r
kHangul	기:0E
kHanYu	53476.020
kHanyuPinlu	qǐ(5632)
kHanyuPinyin	53476.020:qǐ
kHKGlyph	3958
kIICore	AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	1683.180
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53476.020
kIRGKangXi	1215.150
kIRG_GSource	G0-4670
kIRG_HSource	HB1-B05F
kIRG_JSource	J0-352F
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-D2ED
kIRG_KSource	K0-5143
kIRG_TSource	T1-5844
kIRG_VSource	V1-6843
kJapanese	キおきるおこるおこすたつ
kJoyoKanji	2010
kKoreanEducationHanja	2007
kTGH	2013:1789
kJapaneseKun	OKIRU OKORU TATSU
kJapaneseOn	KI
kJis0	2115
kKangXi	1215.150
kKarlgren	319
kKorean	KI
kLau	1156
kMainlandTelegraph	6386
kMandarin	qǐ
kMatthews	548
kMeyerWempe	696
kMojiJoho	MJ025178 MJ025178:E0102 MJ025179:E0103
kMorohashi	37048 37048:E0102 49743:E0103
kNelson	4541
kPhonetic	597
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+1609+49.3.7 C+1609+156.7.3 V+13704+49.3.7 V+13704+156.7.3
kRSUnicode	156.3
kSBGY	253.12
kSMSZD2003Index	672.06
kSMSZD2003Readings	qǐ粵hei2
kTaiwanTelegraph	6386
kTang	*kiə̌
kTGHZ2013	293.050:qǐ
kTotalStrokes	10
kUnihanCore2020	GHJKMPT
kVietnamese	khởi
kXerox	241:155
kXHC1983	0899.070:qǐ