U+5462 "呢" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

呢
Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+5462 "呢" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used in both Simplified and Traditional Chinese writing, primarily functioning as a modal particle in spoken and written language. It is commonly employed in questions to indicate a casual or rhetorical tone, such as in "你呢?" meaning "and you?" or in sentences like "他在干什么呢?" meaning "What is he doing?" Additionally, it can serve to soften commands or express ongoing actions when paired with other particles, making it an essential element for conveying nuance in Mandarin Chinese conversation and text.

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General Properties

Code Point
U+5462
Version Added
1.1
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Block
CJK Unified Ideographs
General Category
Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class
Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class
Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
呢
HTML Hex Encoding
呢
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE5 0x91 0xA2
UTF-16 Encoding
0x5462
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00005462
C/C++/Java Escape
\u5462

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check
Yes
NFD Quick Check
Yes
NFKC Quick Check
Yes
NFKD Quick Check
Yes
Numeric Type
None
Numeric Value
NaN
Line Break
Ideographic
East Asian Width
Wide
Script
Han
Script Extensions
Han
Indic Syllabic Category
Other
ID Start
Yes
XID Start
Yes
ID Continue
Yes
XID Continue
Yes
Alphabetic
Yes
Vertical Orientation
Upright
Grapheme Base
Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break
Other
Word Break
Other
Sentence Break
OLetter
Ideographic
Yes
Unified Ideograph
Yes

Unihan Properties

kBigFive
A94F
kCCCII
213569
kCNS1986
1-4C51
kCNS1992
1-4C51
kCangjie
RSP
kCantonese
nai4
kCheungBauer
030/05;RSP;nei1,ni1
kCheungBauerIndex
351.05
kCihaiT
265.403
kCowles
2872 2881
kDaeJaweon
0399.310
kDefinition
interrogative or emphatic final; (Cant.) this
kEACC
213569
kFanqie
女夷
kFenn
725A
kFennIndex
359.07 359.09
kFourCornerCode
6701.1
kGB0
3656
kGB1
3656
kGradeLevel
1
kHangul
니:1N
kHanYu
10609.030
kHanyuPinlu
ne(2307) ní(21)
kHanyuPinyin
10609.030:ní,nǐ,nī,ne
kHKGlyph
0539
kIICore
AGTHM
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
10609.030
kIRG_GSource
G0-4458
kIRG_HSource
HB1-A94F
kIRG_JSource
J14-2369
kIRG_KPSource
KP1-3973
kIRG_KSource
K1-5C5B
kIRG_TSource
T1-4C51
kIRG_VSource
V1-4E69
kJapanese
ジ ニ
kKoreanName
2015
kTGH
2013:1102
kJIS0213
2,03,73
kJapaneseOn
JI NI
kJis1
2085
kKangXi
0181.250
kKorean
NI
kLau
2280 2281 2282 2370
kMainlandTelegraph
0716
kMandarin
ne
kMatthews
4656
kMeyerWempe
1977 2074
kMojiJoho
MJ008152
kMorohashi
03430
kPhonetic
946
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+17350+30.3.5
kRSUnicode
30.5
kSBGY
053.45
kSMSZD2003Index
96.05
kSMSZD2003Readings
né粵nai4,nei4 ne粵ne1
kTaiwanTelegraph
0716
kTGHZ2013
263.160:ne 264.120:ní
kTotalStrokes
8
kUnihanCore2020
GHMT
kVietnamese
nài
kXerox
241:335
kXHC1983
0822.040:ne 0827.030:ní