U+5303 "匃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+5303 "匃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means to beg or to seek, often associated with the concept of begging for alms or soliciting help. It is a variant form of the more common character 丐 (gài), sharing the same core meanings related to begging or deriving from the radical for "cover" or "enclosure." Historically, 匃 appears in classical texts and compound words, reflecting its usage in contexts of poverty or supplication, and it is encoded in the CJK Unified Ideographs block of the Unicode standard, which encompasses characters used in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and other East Asian writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5303
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	匃
HTML Hex Encoding	匃
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x8C 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5303
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005303
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5303

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

kCCCII	216C6A
kCNS1986	E-2223
kCNS1992	3-2223
kCangjie	PVO
kCantonese	koi3
kCihaiT	200.502
kDaeJaweon	0339.170
kDefinition	beggar; beg; give
kEACC	216C6A
kFanqie	古太 古達
kGSR	0313a
kHangul	개:1N
kHanYu	10257.030
kIRGDaeJaweon	0339.170
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10257.030
kIRGKangXi	0150.250
kIRG_GSource	GE-3265
kIRG_JSource	J1-337C
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-3866
kIRG_KSource	K1-5769
kIRG_TSource	T3-2223
kJapanese	カツ カチ カイ あたえる こう
kKoreanName	2015
kJapaneseKun	KOU ATAERU
kJapaneseOn	KATSU KACHI KAI
kJis1	1992
kKangXi	0150.250
kKarlgren	295
kKorean	KAY
kMandarin	gài
kMatthews	3194
kMojiJoho	MJ007754
kMorohashi	02504
kPhonetic	644
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+19201+20.2.3
kRSUnicode	20.3
kSBGY	380.03
kSemanticVariant	U+4E10<kMatthews U+5304<kMatthews
kTaiwanTelegraph	0544
kTotalStrokes	5
kXerox	322:326