U+4F0A "伊" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
U+4F0A "伊" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a logograph used in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean that functions primarily as a pronoun or a component in proper names and transliterations. In classical and modern Chinese, it often serves as a third-person pronoun equivalent to "he" or "she," and it appears in historical terms like "伊尹" a famous prime minister, as well as in loanword transcriptions such as "伊拉克" for Iraq. In Japanese, it is used as a kanji in given names and in the word "伊勢" referring to the Ise region, while in Korean it appears in surnames and place names. The character's radical is 人 (person) with a phonetic component, and it traces its origins to oracle bone script, where it depicted a person with a weapon or a ceremonial implement, later evolving into its modern semantic range.