U+8A72 "該" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

該
Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+8A72 "該" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "should," "ought to," or "that which is mentioned," and it is commonly used in both modern and classical Chinese texts to indicate obligation or likelihood. In the Japanese writing system, this character is employed as a kanji with similar meanings, often appearing in compound words related to responsibility or reference. Its structure combines the radical for "speech" or "word" on the left with a phonetic component on the right, reflecting its role in expressing logical or moral necessity within East Asian languages.

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General Properties

Code Point
U+8A72
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
該
HTML Hex Encoding
該
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE8 0xA9 0xB2
UTF-16 Encoding
0x8A72
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00008A72
C/C++/Java Escape
\u8a72

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
B8D3
kCCCII
215859
kCNS1986
1-665A
kCNS1992
1-665A
kCangjie
YRYVO
kCantonese
goi1
kCihaiT
1244.202
kCowles
1737
kDaeJaweon
1624.100
kDefinition
should, ought to, need to
kEACC
215859
kFanqie
古哀
kFenn
874B
kFennIndex
235.04
kFourCornerCode
0068.2
kGB1
2435
kGradeLevel
1
kGSR
0937p
kHangul
해:0E
kHanYu
63970.070
kHanyuPinlu
gāi(1057)
kHanyuPinyin
63970.070:gāi
kHKGlyph
3783
kIICore
ATJHKMP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
63970.070
kIRG_GSource
G1-3843
kIRG_HSource
HB1-B8D3
kIRG_JSource
J0-333A
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-F5C7
kIRG_KSource
K0-7A31
kIRG_TSource
T1-665A
kIRG_VSource
V2-9024
kJapanese
ガイ カイ かねる その
kJoyoKanji
2010
kKoreanEducationHanja
2007
kJapaneseKun
KANERU SONO
kJapaneseOn
GAI KAI
kJis0
1926
kKangXi
1158.160
kKarlgren
56
kKorean
HAY
kLau
946
kMandarin
gāi
kMatthews
3191
kMeyerWempe
1208
kMojiJoho
MJ024463 MJ024463:E0101 MJ024464:E0102
kMorohashi
35445 35445:E0101
kNelson
4349
kPhonetic
490
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+1432+149.7.6
kRSUnicode
149.6
kSBGY
099.26
kSimplifiedVariant
"该" U+8BE5 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index
647.04
kSMSZD2003Readings
gāi粵goi1
kTaiwanTelegraph
6115
kTotalStrokes
13
kUnihanCore2020
HJKMPT
kXerox
242:255