U+4E09 "三" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+4E09 "三" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is the standard East Asian character representing the number three, widely used in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems. Its form consists of three horizontal strokes, reflecting its numerical meaning, and it appears in contexts ranging from everyday counting to idiomatic expressions like the Chinese "three people make a tiger" to illustrate rumor spreading. In Japanese, it is read as "san" and plays a key role in compound words such as "sanpo" for a walk, while in Korean it is read as "sam" and appears in terms like "samgak" for triangle. Across these languages, "三" serves as a foundational numeric character integrated into cultural and linguistic traditions.
General Properties
Code Point
U+4E09
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
三
HTML Hex Encoding
三
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE4 0xB8 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding
0x4E09
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00004E09
C/C++/Java Escape
\u4e09
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
3
Script Extensions
Han
Unihan Properties
kBigFive
A454
kCCCII
213024
kCNS1986
1-4435
kCNS1992
1-4435
kCangjie
MMM
kCantonese
saam1
kCihaiT
11.201
kCowles
3572
kDaeJaweon
0138.010
kDefinition
three
kEACC
213024
kFanqie
蘇甘 蘇暫
kFenn
1A
kFennIndex
427.04 428.05 429.01 429.04
kFourCornerCode
1010.1
kGB0
4093
kGB1
4093
kGradeLevel
1
kGSR
0648a
kHangul
삼:0E
kHanYu
10004.030
kHanyuPinlu
sān(3030)
kHanyuPinyin
10004.030:sān
kHKGlyph
0004
kIICore
AGTJHKMP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
10004.030
kIRG_GSource
G0-487D
kIRG_HSource
HB1-A454
kIRG_JSource
J0-3B30
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-E1B5
kIRG_KSource
K0-5F32
kIRG_TSource
T1-4435
kIRG_VSource
V1-4A26
kJapanese
サン シン み みつ みっつ
kJoyoKanji
2010
kKoreanEducationHanja
2007
kTGH
2013:22
kJapaneseKun
MITSU MITABI
kJapaneseOn
SAN
kJis0
2716
kKangXi
0076.050
kKorean
SAM
kLau
2599 2600
kMainlandTelegraph
0005
kMandarin
sān
kMatthews
5415
kMeyerWempe
2528
kMojiJoho
MJ006305
kMorohashi
00012
kNelson
0008
kPhonetic
1100
kPrimaryNumeric
3
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+2174+1.1.2
kRSUnicode
1.2
kSBGY
224.12 443.29
kSemanticVariant
U+53C1<kLau,kMatthews,kMeyerWempe
kSMSZD2003Index
1.06
kSMSZD2003Readings
sān粵saam1 sān,sàn粵saam3
kSpecializedSemanticVariant
U+53C1<kFenn
kTaiwanTelegraph
0005
kTang
*sɑm sɑm
kTGHZ2013
320.010:sān
kTotalStrokes
3
kUnihanCore2020
GHJKMPT
kVietnamese
tam
kXerox
241:113
kXHC1983
0982.010:sān