U+9808 "須" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+9808 "須" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "must," "necessary," or "to need," and it is also used in Japanese as a component of words like "必須" (hissu) meaning "essential." Historically, it derives from a pictograph of a beard or whiskers, reflecting an older meaning related to facial hair, though this usage has largely been supplanted by the more common character "鬚" in modern Chinese. In East Asian languages, "須" appears in various contexts, from expressing necessity in Classical Chinese texts to forming compound words in contemporary Japanese and Korean.
General Properties
Code Point
U+9808
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
須
HTML Hex Encoding
須
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE9 0xA0 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding
0x9808
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00009808
C/C++/Java Escape
\u9808
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Han
Unihan Properties
kBigFive
B6B7
kCCCII
21603C
kCNS1986
1-627C
kCNS1992
1-627C
kCangjie
HHMBC
kCantonese
seoi1
kCihaiT
1475.402
kCowles
3717
kDaeJaweon
1916.040
kDefinition
must, have to, necessary; moment; whiskers
kEACC
21603C
kFanqie
相俞
kFenn
280C
kFennIndex
190.03
kFourCornerCode
2128.6
kGB1
4875
kGradeLevel
3
kGSR
0133a
kHangul
수:0E
kHanYu
74358.010
kHanyuPinlu
xū(734)
kHanyuPinyin
74358.010:xū
kHKGlyph
4499
kIICore
ATJHKMP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
74358.010
kIRG_GSource
G1-506B
kIRG_HSource
HB1-B6B7
kIRG_JSource
J0-3F5C
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-E4B5
kIRG_KSource
K0-624E
kIRG_TSource
T1-627C
kIRG_VSource
V1-6B71
kJapanese
ス シュ ハン ヘン ひげ まつ もちいる もとめる
kJoyoKanji
2010
kKoreanEducationHanja
2007
kJapaneseKun
HIGE MOTOMERU MOCHIIRU
kJapaneseOn
SHU SU
kJis0
3160
kKangXi
1399.230
kKorean
SWU
kMandarin
xū
kMatthews
2847
kMeyerWempe
2867
kMojiJoho
MJ028158
kMorohashi
43352
kNelson
1592
kPhonetic
1252
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+2594+59.3.9 C+2594+181.9.3
kRSUnicode
181.3
kSBGY
075.32
kSemanticVariant
U+6E4F<kMatthews
kSimplifiedVariant
kSMSZD2003Index
771.01 211.12
kSMSZD2003Readings
xū粵seoi1
kTaiwanTelegraph
7312
kTang
*sio sio
kTotalStrokes
12
kUnihanCore2020
HJKMPT
kVietnamese
tua
kXerox
243:243