unicode

要

U+8981

CJK Ideograph-8981

CJK Ideograph-8981 — necessary, essential; necessity

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

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Quick facts

Code point: U+8981
Decimal: 35201
Name: CJK Ideograph-8981
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{8981}' // U+8981
Python: "\N{CJK Ideograph-8981}"
HTML: 要

Unihan

Definition: necessary, essential; necessity
Mandarin: yào
Cantonese: jiu3
Japanese on: YOU
Japanese kun: IRU MOTOMERU KANAME
Korean: YO
Hangul: 요
Vietnamese: yếu
Total strokes: 9
Radical-stroke: 146.3

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

Encodings & escapes

UTF-8
UTF-16
UTF-32
HTML decimal
HTML hex
JavaScript
Python
CSS
JSON
URL (UTF-8)
C / C++

Notes

Mandarin: yào

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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