U+90AC "邬" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+90AC "邬" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used primarily in historical and modern contexts, representing a surname and a place name. It is composed of the radical for "city" or "town" on the right side, indicating a geographical association, and a phonetic component on the left. In Chinese history, it refers to an ancient walled town or fief, and today it is most commonly encountered as the surname Wu, though it is less frequent than its homophonous counterparts. The character retains cultural significance in classical texts and family records, linking it to specific regional lineages in China.

General Properties

Code Point	U+90AC
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	邬
HTML Hex Encoding	邬
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0x82 0xAC
UTF-16 Encoding	0x90AC
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000090AC
C/C++/Java Escape	\u90ac

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

kCCCII	293F5C
kCangjie	PMNL
kCantonese	wu1
kDefinition	various place names; surname
kEACC	293F5C
kFourCornerCode	2712
kGB0	5889
kHanYu	63759.120
kIICore	CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	63759.120
kIRGKangXi	1269.161
kIRG_GSource	G0-5A79
kTGH	2013:3621
kKangXi	1269.161
kMainlandTelegraph	6762
kMandarin	wū
kRSUnicode	163.4
kSMSZD2003Index	704.13
kTGHZ2013	388.020:wū
kTotalStrokes	6
kTraditionalVariant	"鄔" U+9114 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	1212.030:wū