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要

CJK unified ideograph (U+8981)
Place unicode_character Q54884537

Facts

17 properties
Instance of
Unicode character, sinogram, legacy Chinese character, kyōiku kanji, hanja character, Nôm character, kanji character[2][3][4][5][6][7]
CJKV variant character
𠾅, 𡕯, 𡕹, 𡚩, 𡢗, 𤐫, 𦥺, 𦥼, 𮮡[22][23][24]
Cangjie input
MWV
Catalog
Chart of Standard Forms of Common National Characters, Table of General Standard Chinese Characters, Basic Hanja for educational use, Table of hanja for personal names[12][13][14][15]
Catalog code
1441, 3763[10][11]
Grade of kanji
grade 4 kyōiku kanji[20]
HTML entity
要, 要[17][18]
Hangul pronunciation
요
Has kanji reading
ヨウ, かなめ, いる
Ideographic description sequence
⿱, 覀, 女
Radical
Kangxi radical 146 (⾑)[21]
Stroke count
+9[19]
Unicode block
CJK Unified Ideographs
Unicode character
要[9]
Unicode character name
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8981
Unicode code point
8981[16]
Writing system
Chinese characters[8]
🏷️ Also known as
en CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8981 en 要
🔖 Identifiers · 6
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
It-要.png ↗
Dictionary of Variant Chinese Characters ID
A03763
Digital Hanja Dictionary ID
11542
GlyphWiki ID
u8981-g, u8981-j, u8981-t
International Encoded Han Character and Variants Database ID
21984
Kanjipedia kanji ID
0006942000

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要 is an Unicode character[1].

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  1. 7w ago · Namoroka · 2026-09-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Radical → Kangxi radical 146 (⾑)
    GlyphWiki ID → u8981-g, u8981-j, u8981-t
    Image → It-要.png
    Has kanji reading → ヨウ, かなめ, いる
    + 23 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/54529|batch #54529]]: P5537 References from Unihan kHangul (5001-9540): 8981 요 | 8981 요"
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