unicode

唉

U+5509

CJK Ideograph-5509

CJK Ideograph-5509 — alas, exclamation of surprise or pain

Japanese kanji page for 唉 — readings, meanings, and vocabulary

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Quick facts

Code point: U+5509
Decimal: 21769
Name: CJK Ideograph-5509
General category: Lo — Other Letter
Block: CJK Unified Ideographs
Script: Han
Bidi class: L
Combining class: 0
Age: 1.1
Name aliases: —

Normalization & case

Decomposition: —
Uppercase: —
Lowercase: —
Titlecase: —
Case folding: —
Bidi mirrored: No

Layout & width

East Asian Width: W
Line Break: ID
Numeric: —
Script extensions: —

Binary properties

AlphabeticID_StartID_ContinueXID_StartXID_Continue

Developer examples

JS: '\u{5509}' // U+5509
Python: "\N{CJK Ideograph-5509}"
HTML: 唉

Unihan

Definition: alas, exclamation of surprise or pain
Mandarin: āi
Cantonese: aai1
Japanese on: KAI KI AI I
Japanese kun: AA AAOO IYAIYAKOTAERU
Korean: AY
Hangul: 애
Vietnamese: hãy
Total strokes: 10
Radical-stroke: 30.7

Expanded Japanese study material: kanji 唉 readings and example words.

Encodings & escapes

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Notes

Mandarin: āi

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Block

CJK Unified Ideographs

Category

Other Letter

Script

Han

Source

Unicode: 16.0.0
WHATWG: —
kanji-data: npmjs.com/package/kanji-data