U+963F "阿" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
阿
U+963F "阿" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used in multiple East Asian languages, most notably in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. It is a pictophonetic compound, with the left radical representing a mound or hill (阝, a variant of 阜) and the right component providing phonetic hints. In modern Chinese, it commonly serves as a prefix for names or terms of endearment, appears in loanword transliterations such as 阿拉伯 (Ālābó, meaning Arab), and is also a component of the Buddhist title 阿弥陀佛 (Āmítuófó, Amitabha Buddha). The character carries pronunciations including ā and à in Mandarin, a in Japanese, and a in Korean, reflecting its versatile use across cultures and contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+963F |
| 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 | 阿 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 阿 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0x98 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x963F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000963F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u963f |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | AAFC |
| kCCCII | 215E73 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4F5F |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4F5F |
| kCangjie | NLMNR |
| kCantonese | aa3 |
| kCihaiT | 1415.503 |
| kCowles | 11 3088 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1850.020 |
| kDefinition | prefix for people's names; used in transliteration |
| kEACC | 215E73 |
| kFanqie | 烏何 |
| kFenn | 699C |
| kFennIndex | 1.01 1.03 1.04 1.05 369.06 |
| kFourCornerCode | 7122.0 |
| kGB0 | 1602 |
| kGB1 | 1602 |
| kGradeLevel | 5 |
| kGSR | 0001m |
| kHangul | 아:0N |
| kHanYu | 64119.110 |
| kHanyuPinlu | ā(169) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 64119.110:ē,ě,ā,ǎ,à |
| kHKGlyph | 4367 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1850.020 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 64119.110 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1348.060 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3022 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-AAFC |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3024 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F7AC |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6439 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4F5F |
| kIRG_VSource | V2-9125 |
| kJapanese | ア アク アチ オク おもねる くま お |
| kJinmeiyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:913 |
| kJapaneseKun | KUMA OMONERU O |
| kJapaneseOn | A |
| kJis0 | 1604 |
| kKangXi | 1348.060 |
| kKarlgren | 1 |
| kKorean | A OK |
| kLau | 5 2420 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 7093 |
| kMandarin | ā |
| kMatthews | 1 |
| kMeyerWempe | 7a 2136 2139b |
| kMojiJoho | MJ027562 |
| kMorohashi | 41599 |
| kNelson | 4985 |
| kPhonetic | 3 487 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1128+170.3.5 |
| kRSUnicode | 170.5 |
| kSBGY | 161.31 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 750.01 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | ā粵aa3 ē粵o1 |
| kSpecializedSemanticVariant | U+554A<kFenn U+7A95 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 7093 |
| kTang | qɑ |
| kTGHZ2013 | 001.020:ā 086.010:ē |
| kTotalStrokes | 7 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kXerox | 244:146 |
| kXHC1983 | 0001.010:ā 0002.081:a 0282.010:ē |