U+963F "阿" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+963F "阿" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used in multiple East Asian languages, most notably in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. It is a pictophonetic compound, with the left radical representing a mound or hill (阝, a variant of 阜) and the right component providing phonetic hints. In modern Chinese, it commonly serves as a prefix for names or terms of endearment, appears in loanword transliterations such as 阿拉伯 (Ālābó, meaning Arab), and is also a component of the Buddhist title 阿弥陀佛 (Āmítuófó, Amitabha Buddha). The character carries pronunciations including ā and à in Mandarin, a in Japanese, and a in Korean, reflecting its versatile use across cultures and contexts.
General Properties
Code Point
U+963F
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
阿
HTML Hex Encoding
阿
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE9 0x98 0xBF
UTF-16 Encoding
0x963F
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000963F
C/C++/Java Escape
\u963f
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Han
Unihan Properties
kBigFive
AAFC
kCCCII
215E73
kCNS1986
1-4F5F
kCNS1992
1-4F5F
kCangjie
NLMNR
kCantonese
aa3
kCihaiT
1415.503
kCowles
11 3088
kDaeJaweon
1850.020
kDefinition
prefix for people's names; used in transliteration
kEACC
215E73
kFanqie
烏何
kFenn
699C
kFennIndex
1.01 1.03 1.04 1.05 369.06
kFourCornerCode
7122.0
kGB0
1602
kGB1
1602
kGradeLevel
5
kGSR
0001m
kHangul
아:0N
kHanYu
64119.110
kHanyuPinlu
ā(169)
kHanyuPinyin
64119.110:ē,ě,ā,ǎ,à
kHKGlyph
4367
kIICore
AGTJHKMP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
64119.110
kIRG_GSource
G0-3022
kIRG_HSource
HB1-AAFC
kIRG_JSource
J0-3024
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-F7AC
kIRG_KSource
K0-6439
kIRG_TSource
T1-4F5F
kIRG_VSource
V2-9125
kJapanese
ア アク アチ オク おもねる くま お
kJinmeiyoKanji
2010
kKoreanName
2015
kTGH
2013:913
kJapaneseKun
KUMA OMONERU O
kJapaneseOn
A
kJis0
1604
kKangXi
1348.060
kKarlgren
1
kKorean
A OK
kLau
5 2420
kMainlandTelegraph
7093
kMandarin
ā
kMatthews
1
kMeyerWempe
7a 2136 2139b
kMojiJoho
MJ027562
kMorohashi
41599
kNelson
4985
kPhonetic
3 487
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+1128+170.3.5
kRSUnicode
170.5
kSBGY
161.31
kSMSZD2003Index
750.01
kSMSZD2003Readings
ā粵aa3 ē粵o1
kSpecializedSemanticVariant
U+554A<kFenn U+7A95
kTaiwanTelegraph
7093
kTang
qɑ
kTGHZ2013
001.020:ā 086.010:ē
kTotalStrokes
8
kUnihanCore2020
GHJKMPT
kXerox
244:146
kXHC1983
0001.010:ā 0002.081:a 0282.010:ē