U+987B "须" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+987B "须" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily denotes necessity or obligation, often translated as "must" or "have to," and it also carries the meanings of "beard" or "whiskers" in its traditional form, though the latter sense is more commonly associated with the variant 鬚 in modern usage. As a component in compound words, it appears in terms like 必须 (bìxū, "must") and 胡须 (húxū, "beard"), reflecting its dual role in expressing both imperative necessity and physical facial hair.

General Properties

Code Point U+987B
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 须
HTML Hex Encoding 须
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0xA1 0xBB
UTF-16 Encoding 0x987B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000987B
C/C++/Java Escape \u987b

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 27603C
kCangjie HHMBO
kCantonese seoi1
kDefinition must, have to, necessary
kEACC 276165
kFourCornerCode 2128
kGB0 4875
kHanYu 74358.020
kHanyuPinlu xū(734)
kIICore AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 74358.020
kIRGKangXi 1410.451
kIRG_GSource G0-506B
kTGH 2013:1585
kKangXi 1410.451
kMainlandTelegraph 7312
kMandarin
kPhonetic 1252*
kRSUnicode 181'.3
kSMSZD2003Index 211.03
kTGHZ2013 412.100,412.110:xū
kTotalStrokes 9
kTraditionalVariant "須" U+9808 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
"鬚" U+9B1A CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 1299.130:xū