U+530F "匏" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
匏
U+530F "匏" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character representing a type of gourd or calabash, specifically referring to the bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria) that is dried and used as a container or utensil. This character is composed of a radical related to plants (艹) combined with elements suggesting a round, hollow shape, and it appears in classical Chinese literature and idioms such as "匏瓜" (páo guā), which metaphorically describes something useful but isolated or unused. In modern usage, it is encountered in historical texts, traditional medicine, and contexts involving ancient vessels or musical instruments made from gourds.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+530F |
| 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 | 匏 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 匏 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x8C 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x530F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000530F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u530f |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B0CC |
| kCCCII | 213446 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5931 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5931 |
| kCangjie | KSPRU |
| kCantonese | paau4 |
| kCihaiT | 201.404 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0341.170 |
| kDefinition | gourd; musical instrument |
| kEACC | 213446 |
| kFanqie | 薄交 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4721.2 |
| kGB0 | 6243 |
| kGB1 | 6243 |
| kGSR | 1113f |
| kHangul | 포:0N |
| kHanYu | 10542.040 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10542.040:páo |
| kHKGlyph | 0408 |
| kIICore | AGTHKP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0341.170 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10542.040 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0151.330 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5E4B |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B0CC |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-5237 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F1BC |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-7852 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5931 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-4D57 |
| kJapanese | ホウ ビョウ ひさご |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:4799 |
| kJapaneseKun | HISAGO |
| kJapaneseOn | HOU |
| kJis0 | 5023 |
| kKangXi | 0151.330 |
| kKorean | PHO |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0549 |
| kMandarin | páo |
| kMatthews | 4967 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2258a |
| kMojiJoho | MJ007770 MJ007770:E0101 MJ007771:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 02544 02544:E0101 |
| kPhonetic | 1011 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+4300+20.2.9 |
| kRSUnicode | 20.9 |
| kSBGY | 154.21 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+74DF<kMatthews,kMeyerWempe |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 71.07 150.09 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | páo粵paau4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0549 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 277.050:páo |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | bầu |
| kXerox | 274:164 |
| kXHC1983 | 0856.050:páo |