U+9858 "願" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

願

U+9858 "願" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) ideograph that fundamentally conveys the concept of a wish, desire, or hope, often with a connotation of willingness or a request. In modern usage, it appears in words such as the Chinese "yuànwàng" for wish or aspiration, and the Japanese "negai" for a wish or prayer, as well as in common expressions like "願う" (negau, "to wish" or "to pray"). Historically, its composition reflects a semantic element related to the head or origin (頁) combined with a phonetic component, evolving to represent heartfelt longing or a solemn vow. This character is widely used across East Asian languages and appears in cultural and literary contexts ranging from Buddhist scriptures to everyday expressions of goodwill, such as in the phrase "願い事" (wish or prayer).

General Properties

Code Point	U+9858
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	願
HTML Hex Encoding	願
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xA1 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9858
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009858
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9858

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	C440
kCCCII	216055
kCNS1986	1-794C
kCNS1992	1-794C
kCangjie	MFMBC
kCantonese	jyun6
kCihaiT	1480.602
kCowles	4932
kDaeJaweon	1925.360
kDefinition	desire, want; wish; ambition
kEACC	216055
kFanqie	魚怨
kFenn	194B
kFennIndex	652.11 653.01
kFourCornerCode	7128.6
kGB1	5224
kGradeLevel	3
kGSR	0258f
kHangul	원:0E
kHanYu	74385.070
kHanyuPinyin	74385.070:yuàn,yuǎn
kHKGlyph	4521
kIICore	ATJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	1925.360
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74385.070
kIRGKangXi	1407.310
kIRG_GSource	G1-5438
kIRG_HSource	HB1-C440
kIRG_JSource	J0-346A
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-FEC9
kIRG_KSource	K0-6A43
kIRG_TSource	T1-794C
kIRG_VSource	V1-6B7E
kJapanese	ガンゲンねがうねがい
kJoyoKanji	2010
kKoreanEducationHanja	2007
kJapaneseKun	NEGAU NEGAI
kJapaneseOn	GAN GEN
kJis0	2074
kKangXi	1407.310
kKorean	WEN
kLau	3563
kMandarin	yuàn
kMatthews	7729
kMeyerWempe	3673
kMojiJoho	MJ028255
kMorohashi	43623
kNelson	0255
kPhonetic	1629
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+1574+181.9.10
kRSUnicode	181.10
kSBGY	397.22
kSemanticVariant	U+613F<kFenn
kSimplifiedVariant	"愿" U+613F CJK Unified Ideograph-# "𫖸" U+2B5B8 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	774.13
kSMSZD2003Readings	yuàn粵jyun6
kSpecializedSemanticVariant	U+613F
kTaiwanTelegraph	7349
kTang	*ngiuæ̀n
kTotalStrokes	19
kUnihanCore2020	HJKMPT
kVietnamese	nguyện
kXerox	243:255
kXHC1983	1426.041:yuàn