U+4FA7 "侧" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
侧
U+4FA7 "侧" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "side," "edge," "lean," or "lateral," and it is pronounced "cè" in Mandarin. It is composed of the radical "亻" (person) on the left, indicating a connection to human action, and the phonetic component "则" (zè) on the right. In common usage, "侧" appears in words like "侧面" (side face or side aspect), "左侧" (left side), and "侧身" (to lean sideways or turn sideways), reflecting its function in describing positions, directions, or inclinations. This character is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block and is widely used in both simplified and traditional Chinese scripts, as well as in Japanese kanji and Korean hanja.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+4FA7 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Block | CJK Unified Ideographs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 侧 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 侧 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE4 0xBE 0xA7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x4FA7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00004FA7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u4fa7 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 273235 |
| kCangjie | OBON |
| kCantonese | zak1 |
| kDefinition | side; incline, slant, lean |
| kEACC | 273235 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2220 |
| kGB0 | 1864 |
| kHanYu | 10148.080 |
| kHanyuPinlu | cè(125) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10148.080 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0102.291 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3260 |
| kTGH | 2013:1147 |
| kKangXi | 0102.291 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0258 |
| kMandarin | cè |
| kRSUnicode | 9.6 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 28.13 60.08 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 033.030:cè |
| kTotalStrokes | 8 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "側" U+5074 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0109.050:cè 1445.050:zè 1449.090:zhāi |