U+4E8B "事" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
U+4E8B "事" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a widely used East Asian character meaning "matter," "affair," "thing," or "event" in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. In Chinese, it is pronounced as "shi" and appears in common phrases such as "事情" (shìqing) for "matter" or "business," and "事件" (shìjiàn) for "incident" or "event." In Japanese, it is read as "koto" or "ji" and is essential in words like "仕事" (shigoto, meaning "work") and "事故" (jiko, meaning "accident"). The character is composed of the radical "丨" (a vertical line) and other components, with its original form depicting a hand holding a writing tool, symbolizing the concept of recording or managing affairs. It is categorized under the Unicode CJK Unified Ideographs block and carries the hexadecimal code point 4E8B.