# 該 U+8A72 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8A72

A Chinese character meaning “should, ought to, need to”, read gāi in Mandarin.

| | |
|---|---|
| Character | `該` |
| Codepoint | U+8A72 |
| Name | CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8A72 |
| Block | [CJK Unified Ideographs](https://unicodekit.com/block/cjk-unified-ideographs) |
| Script | Han |
| Category | Other Letter (Lo) |
| Unicode version | 1.1 |
| HTML | `該` `該` |
| CSS | `\8A72` |
| JavaScript | `\u8A72` |
| UTF-8 | E8 A9 B2 |
| UTF-16 | 8A72 |
| Definition | should, ought to, need to |
| Mandarin | gāi |
| Cantonese | goi1 |
| Japanese | GAI KAI KANERU SONO |
| Korean | HAY |

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Page: https://unicodekit.com/char/8A72 · JSON: https://unicodekit.com/characters/8A72