U+4F6C "佬" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+4F6C "佬" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character commonly used in informal or colloquial contexts, often as a noun suffix or appellation. It generally refers to a "guy," "fellow," or "man," and can carry a familiar, slightly condescending, or endearing tone depending on usage, such as in the Cantonese slang "大佬" meaning "big brother" or "boss." In Mandarin, it appears in terms like "鄉巴佬" meaning "country bumpkin" or "foreigner," though in some regions like southern China and Macau, it may also colloquially mean "Macanese person." The character is composed of the radical 亻 (person) and the phonetic component 老 (old), reflecting its human reference.
General Properties
Code Point
U+4F6C
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
佬
HTML Hex Encoding
佬
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE4 0xBD 0xAC
UTF-16 Encoding
0x4F6C
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00004F6C
C/C++/Java Escape
\u4f6c
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Han
Unihan Properties
kBigFive
A8D0
kCCCII
21314D
kCNS1986
1-4B71
kCNS1992
1-4B71
kCangjie
OJKP
kCantonese
lou2
kCheungBauer
009/06;OJKP;lou2
kCheungBauerIndex
339.08 340.01
kCihaiT
104.302
kCowles
2404
kDaeJaweon
0212.050
kDefinition
(Cant.) man, person; mature
kEACC
21314D
kFenn
189I
kFennIndex
290.02
kFourCornerCode
2421.1
kGB0
3248
kGB1
3248
kHanYu
10144.020
kHanyuPinyin
10144.020:liáo,lǎo
kHKGlyph
0136
kIICore
AGTHM
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
10144.020
kIRG_GSource
G0-4050
kIRG_HSource
HB1-A8D0
kIRG_JSource
J13-2E33
kIRG_KPSource
KP1-352F
kIRG_KSource
K2-2224
kIRG_TSource
T1-4B71
kJapanese
リョウ ロ ロウ
kTGH
2013:3951
kJIS0213
1,14,19
kJapaneseKun
OOKII
kJapaneseOn
RYOU RO ROU
kJis1
1683
kKangXi
0100.090
kLau
1927
kMainlandTelegraph
0097
kMandarin
lǎo
kMeyerWempe
1612
kMojiJoho
MJ006662
kMorohashi
00548
kPhonetic
824
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+16782+9.2.6 C+16782+125.6.2
kRSUnicode
9.6
kSMSZD2003Index
26.16
kSMSZD2003Readings
lǎo粵lou2
kSpecializedSemanticVariant
U+59C6<kFenn
kTaiwanTelegraph
9772
kTGHZ2013
211.040:lǎo
kTotalStrokes
8
kUnihanCore2020
GHMT
kXerox
267:175
kXHC1983
0682.040:lǎo