U+54C9 "哉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+54C9 "哉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a classical Chinese character that primarily functions as an exclamatory or interrogative particle in literary and historical texts. Often used at the end of phrases or sentences in Classical Chinese, it conveys a tone of surprise, admiration, rhetorical questioning, or emphasis, similar in some contexts to expressions like "how" or "indeed" in English. In modern Mandarin, it is less frequently used in everyday conversation but remains common in idiomatic phrases, poetry, and traditional writing, such as in the well-known phrase "善哉" meaning "excellent" or "well said" in Buddhist and classical contexts.
General Properties
Code Point
U+54C9
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
哉
HTML Hex Encoding
哉
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE5 0x93 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding
0x54C9
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000054C9
C/C++/Java Escape
\u54c9
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Han
Unihan Properties
kBigFive
AB76
kCCCII
213629
kCNS1986
1-503A
kCNS1992
1-503A
kCangjie
JIR
kCantonese
zoi1
kCihaiT
270.201
kCowles
4604
kDaeJaweon
0408.140
kDefinition
final exclamatory particle
kEACC
213629
kFanqie
祖才
kFenn
334F
kFennIndex
537.05
kFourCornerCode
4365.0
kGB0
5253
kGB1
5253
kGSR
0943v
kHangul
재:0E
kHanYu
10611.070
kHanyuPinyin
10611.070:zāi
kHKGlyph
0563
kIICore
AGTJHKMP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
10611.070
kIRG_GSource
G0-5455
kIRG_HSource
HB1-AB76
kIRG_JSource
J0-3A48
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-EBD5
kIRG_KSource
K0-6E23
kIRG_TSource
T1-503A
kIRG_VSource
V1-4F30
kJapanese
サイ かな や
kJinmeiyoKanji
2010
kKoreanEducationHanja
2007
kTGH
2013:1381
kJapaneseKun
KANA YA
kJapaneseOn
SAI
kJis0
2640
kKangXi
0189.080
kKorean
CAY
kMainlandTelegraph
0762
kMandarin
zāi
kMatthews
6650
kMeyerWempe
3433
kMojiJoho
MJ008260 MJ008260:E0101 MJ008261:E0102
kMorohashi
03596 03596:E0101
kNelson
0777
kPhonetic
239
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+2104+30.3.6 C+2104+62.4.5
kRSUnicode
30.6
kSBGY
100.29
kSMSZD2003Index
102.01 235.15
kSMSZD2003Readings
zāi粵zoi1
kTaiwanTelegraph
0762
kTGHZ2013
456.110:zāi
kTotalStrokes
9
kUnihanCore2020
GHJKMPT
kVietnamese
tai
kXerox
254:047
kXHC1983
1436.050:zāi