U+5078 "偸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+5078 "偸" CJK Unified Ideograph is a Han character used in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing, where it primarily means "to steal" or "to take by stealth." It is a variant form of the more common character 偷, sharing the same pronunciation and core meaning across these languages. In Japanese, it is read as "nusumu" in the kun'yomi reading and "tō" in the on'yomi reading, and it appears in words related to theft or stealthiness. The character consists of the radical for "person" (亻) on the left, combined with a phonetic component, and is classified as a CJK Unified Ideograph under the Unicode standard’s East Asian script block.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5078
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	偸
HTML Hex Encoding	偸
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x81 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5078
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005078
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5078

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Ideographic
East Asian Width	Wide
Script	Han
Script Extensions	Han
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	OLetter
Ideographic	Yes
Unified Ideograph	Yes

Unihan Properties

kCNS1986	E-344C
kCNS1992	3-344C
kCangjie	OOMV
kCantonese	tau1
kCihaiT	119.601
kDefinition	to steal
kFourCornerCode	2822.1 2823.2
kHangul	투:0N
kHanYu	10193.021
kIICore	AJKP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10193.021
kIRGKangXi	0112.071
kIRG_GSource	GE-3129
kIRG_JSource	J0-5079
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-F0C8
kIRG_KSource	K0-775E
kIRG_TSource	T3-344C
kJapanese	チュウ トウ ツ ぬすむ
kKoreanName	2015
kJapaneseKun	NUSUMU
kJapaneseOn	CHUU TOU
kJis0	4889
kKangXi	0112.071
kKorean	THWU
kLau	3043
kMandarin	tōu
kMojiJoho	MJ006956
kMorohashi	00901
kNelson	0504
kPhonetic	1611*
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+4178+9.2.9
kRSUnicode	9.9
kSemanticVariant	U+5077<kLau
kTotalStrokes	11
kUnihanCore2020	JKP