U+4EE5 "以" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+4EE5 "以" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a fundamental Chinese character that means "to use," "by means of," "because of," or "in order to," functioning as a preposition and conjunction in Classical and modern Chinese. It originates from ancient oracle bone and bronze scripts, where it pictographically depicted a tool or an arm being used to perform an action. In modern usage, it appears in common vocabulary like "所以" (so/therefore) and "可以" (can/may), and serves as a key component in compound words indicating purpose, method, or cause, making it essential for both written and spoken Chinese.
General Properties
Code Point
U+4EE5
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
以
HTML Hex Encoding
以
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE4 0xBB 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding
0x4EE5
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00004EE5
C/C++/Java Escape
\u4ee5
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Han
Unihan Properties
kBigFive
A548
kCCCII
213077
kCNS1986
1-4568
kCNS1992
1-4568
kCangjie
VIO
kCantonese
ji5
kCihaiT
87.601
kCowles
1278
kDaeJaweon
0199.010
kDefinition
by means of; thereby, therefore; consider as; in order to
kEACC
213077
kFanqie
羊己
kFenn
431A
kFennIndex
219.07
kFourCornerCode
2810.0
kGB0
5052
kGB1
5052
kGradeLevel
1
kGSR
0976b
kHangul
이:0E
kHanYu
10105.070
kHanyuPinlu
yǐ(6111)
kHanyuPinyin
10105.070:yǐ,sì
kHKGlyph
0085
kIICore
AGTJHKMP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
10105.070
kIRG_GSource
G0-5254
kIRG_HSource
HB1-A548
kIRG_JSource
J0-304A
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-FCA8
kIRG_KSource
K0-6C24
kIRG_TSource
T1-4568
kIRG_VSource
V2-8A2E
kJapanese
イ シ ジ おもう すでに はなはだ ひきいる もちいる もって ゆえに
kJoyoKanji
2010
kKoreanEducationHanja
2007
kTGH
2013:182
kJapaneseKun
OMOU YUENI MOTTE
kJapaneseOn
I
kJis0
1642
kKangXi
0094.010
kKarlgren
181
kKorean
I
kLau
3424
kMainlandTelegraph
0110
kMandarin
yǐ
kMatthews
2932
kMeyerWempe
855
kMojiJoho
MJ006534 MJ006534:E0101 MJ057123:E0102 MJ057124:E0103
kMorohashi
00388 00388:E0101
kNelson
0348
kPhonetic
1549 1551
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+1166+9.2.3
kRSUnicode
9.3
kSBGY
251.19
kSemanticVariant
U+382F<kFenn
kSMSZD2003Index
20.01
kSMSZD2003Readings
yǐ,ǐ粵ji5
kTaiwanTelegraph
0110
kTang
*iə̌ iə̌
kTGHZ2013
432.190:yǐ
kTotalStrokes
5
kUnihanCore2020
GHJKMPT
kXerox
241:073
kXHC1983
1365.020:yǐ