U+90DE "郞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+90DE "郞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that primarily means "gentleman" or "young man," and it is often used as a term of respect or endearment in historical contexts. It is composed of the radical 阝 (meaning "city" or "mound") on the left and 良 (meaning "good" or "virtuous") on the right, reflecting its semantic connection to nobility or moral excellence. In classical literature, this character frequently appears in titles such as "侍郎" (a type of imperial official) or as part of personal names, highlighting its role in denoting status or familiarity. While its usage has declined in modern simplified Chinese, it remains relevant in traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean texts, where it retains its association with refinement and respect.

General Properties

Code Point	U+90DE
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	郞
HTML Hex Encoding	郞
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0x83 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding	0x90DE
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000090DE
C/C++/Java Escape	\u90de

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

kCNS1986	E-3429
kCNS1992	3-3429
kCangjie	IVNL
kCantonese	long4
kCihaiT	1339.101
kCowles	2460
kDefinition	gentleman
kFenn	362B
kFennIndex	287.10
kHangul	낭:0 랑:0E
kHanYu	63775.051
kIBMJapan	FBB6
kIICore	AKP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	63775.051
kIRGKangXi	1272.020
kIRG_GSource	GE-4F5D
kIRG_JSource	J3-7C67
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-D7D9
kIRG_KSource	K0-554D
kIRG_MSource	MD-90DE
kIRG_TSource	T3-3429
kJapanese	ロウ
kJinmeiyoKanji	2010:U+90CE
kKoreanEducationHanja	2007
kJIS0213	1,92,71
kJapaneseKun	OTOKO
kJapaneseOn	ROU
kKangXi	1272.020
kKarlgren	514
kKorean	LANG
kMandarin	láng
kMatthews	3820
kMojiJoho	MJ026309
kMorohashi	39431
kNelson	4763
kPhonetic	796 832
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+8635+163.3.7
kRSUnicode	163.7
kSMSZD2003Index	706.01
kSMSZD2003Readings	láng粵long4
kTang	*lɑng
kTotalStrokes	9
kUnihanCore2020	JKP
kZVariant	U+90CE