U+5074 "側" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
側
U+5074 "側" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "side" or "flank", conveying the concept of a lateral position or an aspect of something. In Japanese, it is pronounced "soba" or "kawa" and similarly denotes "side" or "vicinity", while in Korean it is read as "cheuk" with comparable meanings related to being beside or adjacent. This character is commonly used in compound words such as "側面" (sokumen or chŭkmyŏn), meaning "profile" or "side view", and appears in contexts like directional descriptions, geometry, and everyday references to location or perspective across East Asian writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5074 |
| 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 | 側 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 側 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x81 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5074 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005074 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5074 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B0BC |
| kCCCII | 213235 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5921 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5921 |
| kCangjie | OBCN |
| kCantonese | zak1 |
| kCihaiT | 119.108 |
| kCowles | 121 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0238.060 |
| kDefinition | side; incline, slant, lean |
| kEACC | 213235 |
| kFanqie | 阻力 |
| kFenn | 858F |
| kFennIndex | 9.09 549.08 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2220.0 |
| kGB1 | 1864 |
| kGradeLevel | 3 |
| kGSR | 0906c |
| kHangul | 측:0E |
| kHanYu | 10189.120 |
| kHanyuPinlu | cè(125) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10189.120:cè,zè,zhāi |
| kHKGlyph | 0212 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0238.060 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10189.120 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0111.340 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-3260 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B0BC |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4226 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-EEE2 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-7630 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5921 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-4B71 |
| kJapanese | ソク ショク シキ かわ かたわら そば そばだてる |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kJapaneseKun | KAWA KATAWARA SOBAMERU |
| kJapaneseOn | SOKU SHOKU |
| kJis0 | 3406 |
| kKangXi | 0111.340 |
| kKorean | CHUK |
| kLau | 1321 |
| kMandarin | cè |
| kMatthews | 6757 |
| kMeyerWempe | 133 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ006951 |
| kMorohashi | 00897 |
| kNelson | 0509 |
| kPhonetic | 57 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2822+9.2.9 |
| kRSUnicode | 9.9 |
| kSBGY | 528.50 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "侧" U+4FA7 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 36.03 63.02 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | cè粵zak1 zè粵zak1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0258 |
| kTang | *jriək jriək |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | trắc |
| kXerox | 254:337 |