Cjk Ideograph-8981

U+8981
BMP Unicode 1.1
Character
Decimal 要
Hex 要

Classification

Unicode properties assigned to this character by the Unicode Consortium. The codepoint is its unique numeric identifier. Category, block, and script determine how text systems render and process it.

Codepoint
U+8981
Decimal
35201
Plane
BMP — Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Other Letter (Lo)
Script
Han
Bidi class
L Left-to-Right
East Asian Width
W Wide
Properties
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Encodings & Escape Sequences

Every Unicode character can be represented in multiple ways depending on context. HTML entities let you embed it safely in web pages. UTF-8 bytes are what gets stored on disk and sent over the network. Escape sequences let you reference it in source code without pasting the raw glyph. All formats below refer to the same character — Cjk Ideograph-8981.

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Format Value
HTML Decimal
要
HTML Hex
要
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
E8 A6 81
UTF-16 Hex Bytes
89 81
UTF-32 Hex
00008981
CSS Escape
\8981
JavaScript Escape
\u8981
Python Escape
\u8981
URL Encoded
%E8%A6%81
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Unihan Data

Readings and dictionary data from the Unicode Han Database (Unihan).

Definition
necessary, essential; necessity
Mandarin (Pinyin)
yào
Cantonese (Jyutping)
jiu3
Japanese On
YOU
Japanese Kun
IRU MOTOMERU KANAME
Korean
YO
Vietnamese
yếu