U+9009 "选" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+9009 "选" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to choose," "to select," or "to elect," and it is widely used in modern Mandarin as a simplified form of the traditional character 選. It belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) Unified Ideographs block, which encodes logographic characters common to these languages. In composition, the character combines the radical 辵 (辶), meaning "to walk" or "movement," with the phonetic component 巽, hinting at its pronunciation (xuǎn in Mandarin). Beyond its literal sense of picking or voting, "选" appears in common compounds such as 选择 (xuǎnzé, "to choose"), 选举 (xuǎnjǔ, "election"), and 选手 (xuǎnshǒu, "contestant" or "player"), making it a practical and frequently encountered character in everyday written communication across East Asia.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
选 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
选 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xE9 0x80 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x9009 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00009009 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u9009 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII |
275C4F |
| kCNS1986 |
E-3426 |
| kCNS1992 |
3-3426 |
| kCangjie |
YHGU |
| kCantonese |
syun2 |
| kDefinition |
choose, select; elect; election |
| kEACC |
275C4F |
| kFourCornerCode |
3430 |
| kGB0 |
4901 |
| kHanYu |
63829.020 |
| kHanyuPinlu |
xuǎn(339) |
| kIICore |
AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian |
63829.020 |
| kIRGKangXi |
1257.041 |
| kIRG_GSource |
G0-5121 |
| kIRG_TSource |
T3-3426 |
| kTGH |
2013:1545 |
| kKangXi |
1257.041 |
| kMainlandTelegraph |
6693 |
| kMandarin |
xuǎn |
| kPhonetic |
1199 1270 |
| kRSUnicode |
162.6 |
| kSimplifiedVariant |
"选" U+9009 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index |
695.04 |
| kTGHZ2013 |
415.090:xuǎn |
| kTotalStrokes |
9 |
| kTraditionalVariant |
"选" U+9009 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
"選" U+9078 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 |
G |
| kXHC1983 |
1307.040:xuǎn |