# 要 U+8981 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8981

A Chinese character meaning “necessary, essential; necessity”, read yào in Mandarin.

| | |
|---|---|
| Character | `要` |
| Codepoint | U+8981 |
| Name | CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8981 |
| Block | [CJK Unified Ideographs](https://unicodekit.com/block/cjk-unified-ideographs) |
| Script | Han |
| Category | Other Letter (Lo) |
| Unicode version | 1.1 |
| HTML | `要` `要` |
| CSS | `\8981` |
| JavaScript | `\u8981` |
| UTF-8 | E8 A6 81 |
| UTF-16 | 8981 |
| Definition | necessary, essential; necessity |
| Mandarin | yào |
| Cantonese | jiu3 |
| Japanese | YOU IRU MOTOMERU KANAME |
| Korean | YO |

## Related characters

- 覀 [U+8980 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8980](https://unicodekit.com/char/8980)
- 覂 [U+8982 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8982](https://unicodekit.com/char/8982)
- 西 [U+897F CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-897F](https://unicodekit.com/char/897F)
- 覃 [U+8983 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8983](https://unicodekit.com/char/8983)
- 襾 [U+897E CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-897E](https://unicodekit.com/char/897E)
- 覄 [U+8984 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8984](https://unicodekit.com/char/8984)
- 襽 [U+897D CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-897D](https://unicodekit.com/char/897D)
- 覅 [U+8985 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8985](https://unicodekit.com/char/8985)
- 襼 [U+897C CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-897C](https://unicodekit.com/char/897C)
- 覆 [U+8986 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8986](https://unicodekit.com/char/8986)
- 襻 [U+897B CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-897B](https://unicodekit.com/char/897B)
- 覇 [U+8987 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8987](https://unicodekit.com/char/8987)

Page: https://unicodekit.com/char/8981 · JSON: https://unicodekit.com/characters/8981