U+9700 "需" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

需

U+9700 "需" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily denotes the concept of "need," "necessity," or "to require," and it is commonly used in modern Mandarin Chinese within words like 需要 (xūyào), meaning "to need." This ideograph carries a broader semantic range in classical and literary contexts, where it can also imply hesitation or a state of being in want. Historically, the character's form and meaning have been stable, and it is classified under the radical 雨 (rain) because its ancient composition suggested a person standing in the rain, conveying a sense of something essential or unavoidable. In Unicode, it is part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block, encoded at code point U+9700, and it appears consistently across various East Asian scripts, including simplified and traditional Chinese, as well as Japanese and Korean.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9700
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	需
HTML Hex Encoding	需
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0x9C 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9700
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009700
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9700

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	BBDD
kCCCII	215F59
kCNS1986	1-6B66
kCNS1992	1-6B66
kCangjie	MBMBL
kCantonese	seoi1
kCihaiT	1454.303
kCowles	3716
kDaeJaweon	1883.020
kDefinition	need, require, must; hexagram ䷄
kEACC	215F59
kFanqie	相俞
kFenn	613D
kFennIndex	190.05
kFourCornerCode	1022.7
kGB0	4872
kGB1	4872
kGradeLevel	3
kGSR	0134a
kHangul	수:0E 유:N
kHanYu	64062.020
kHanyuPinlu	xū(750)
kHanyuPinyin	64062.020:xū,nuò,rú,ruǎn
kHKGlyph	4434
kIICore	AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	1883.020
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	64062.020
kIRGKangXi	1373.240
kIRG_GSource	G0-5068
kIRG_HSource	HB1-BBDD
kIRG_JSource	J0-3C7B
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-E4B4
kIRG_KSource	K0-624D
kIRG_TSource	T1-6B66
kIRG_VSource	V2-9131
kJapanese	ジュシュゼンネンダンナンニュまつもとめる
kJoyoKanji	2010
kKoreanEducationHanja	2007
kKoreanName	2015
kTGH	2013:3095
kJapaneseKun	NURERU MATSU MOTOMERU
kJapaneseOn	JU
kJis0	2891
kKangXi	1373.240
kKorean	SWU
kLau	2935
kMainlandTelegraph	7194
kMandarin	xū
kMatthews	2844
kMeyerWempe	2866
kMojiJoho	MJ027800
kMorohashi	42275
kNelson	5052
kPhonetic	1250 1612
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+2343+126.6.8 C+2343+173.8.6
kRSUnicode	173.6
kSBGY	075.40
kSMSZD2003Index	760.09 543.05
kSMSZD2003Readings	xū粵seoi1
kTaiwanTelegraph	7194
kTGHZ2013	412.190:xū
kTotalStrokes	14
kUnihanCore2020	GHJKMPT
kXerox	245:335
kXHC1983	1299.040:xū