U+9A74 "驴" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+9A74 "驴" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "donkey" and is commonly used in modern Mandarin Chinese. In traditional Chinese script, this character is written as "驢," with the simplified form "驴" being standard in mainland China, Singapore, and Malaysia. The character combines the radical "马" (horse) on the left, indicating its association with equine animals, and the phonetic component "户" on the right, which provides a clue to its pronunciation (lǘ). Beyond its literal meaning, "驴" appears in various idiomatic expressions, such as "驴唇不对马嘴" (literally "donkey's lips do not match horse's mouth"), meaning something is irrelevant or inconsistent. In Unicode, it is encoded under the CJK Unified Ideographs block and is widely used in digital text to represent this specific concept in Chinese and other East Asian languages.

General Properties

Code Point U+9A74
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 驴
HTML Hex Encoding 驴
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0xA9 0xB4
UTF-16 Encoding 0x9A74
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00009A74
C/C++/Java Escape \u9a74

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 27614F
kCangjie NMIS
kCantonese lou4
kDefinition donkey, ass
kEACC 27614F
kFourCornerCode 7310.7
kGB0 3431
kHanYu 74545.060
kHanyuPinlu lǘ(56)
kIICore AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 74545.060
kIRGKangXi 1447.241
kIRG_GSource G0-423F
kTGH 2013:941
kKangXi 1447.241
kMainlandTelegraph 7533
kMandarin
kPhonetic 820A* 1462*
kRSUnicode 187'.4
kSMSZD2003Index 785.03
kTGHZ2013 235.020:lǘ
kTotalStrokes 7
kTraditionalVariant "驢" U+9A62 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 0740.160:lǘ