U+99C4 "駄" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

駄

U+99C4 "駄" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese and Japanese kanji character that primarily conveys the meaning of "burden" or "loading," often found in compounds relating to carrying goods or a packhorse. In Japanese, it is frequently used in words like "駄目" (dame), meaning "no good" or "hopeless," and appears in contexts of craftsmanship, such as "駄洒落" (dajare), referring to a pun or a corny joke. The character is composed of the radical for "horse" (馬) and the phonetic component "太," and it has been used historically to denote a horse carrying a heavy load, symbolizing something excessive or inferior in quality. Its usage spans modern everyday writing in Japan, particularly in informal or idiomatic expressions, and it is classified under the JIS X 0208 standard for Japanese character encoding.

General Properties

Code Point	U+99C4
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	駄
HTML Hex Encoding	駄
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xA7 0x84
UTF-16 Encoding	0x99C4
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000099C4
C/C++/Java Escape	\u99c4

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-4A6A
kCNS1992	3-4A6A
kCangjie	SFKI
kCantonese	to4
kDaeJaweon	1960.050
kDefinition	a horse load; a pack-horse
kEACC	4B6130
kFanqie	唐佐
kFourCornerCode	7433.0
kHangul	태:1
kHanYu	74543.090
kIICore	AJ
kIRGDaeJaweon	1960.050
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74543.090
kIRGKangXi	1435.211
kIRG_GSource	GE-5473
kIRG_HSource	H-99F4
kIRG_JSource	J0-424C
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-896E
kIRG_KSource	K1-7157
kIRG_TSource	T3-4A6A
kJapanese	ダタタイダイのせる
kJoyoKanji	2010
kJapaneseKun	NOSERU
kJapaneseOn	TA DA TAI DAI
kJis0	3444
kKangXi	1435.211
kKorean	THA
kMandarin	tuó
kMojiJoho	MJ028648
kMorohashi	44633
kNelson	5198
kPhonetic	1289*
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+2860+187.10.4
kRSUnicode	187.4
kTotalStrokes	14
kUnihanCore2020	HJ