U+5316 "化" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

化

U+5316 "化" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a fundamental Chinese character with the meaning of "change," "transform," or "convert." It is composed of two radicals: the left side represents a person (亻, a variant of 人), and the right side originally depicted a person upside down or in a state of alteration, symbolizing a fundamental shift in form or essence. In everyday usage, "化" appears in words like 变化 (biànhuà, meaning change) and 文化 (wénhuà, meaning culture), where it conveys the process of transformation or cultivation. This character is classified under the Kangxi radical 匕 (spoon or ladle) and holds a prominent place in both classical and modern Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems, reflecting its deep conceptual importance in East Asian thought.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5316
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	化
HTML Hex Encoding	化
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x8C 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5316
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005316
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5316

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

kBigFive	A4C6
kCCCII	213448
kCNS1986	1-4527
kCNS1992	1-4527
kCangjie	OP
kCantonese	faa3
kCihaiT	201.602
kCowles	651
kDaeJaweon	0342.040
kDefinition	change, convert, reform; -ize
kEACC	213448
kFanqie	呼霸
kFenn	327C
kFennIndex	201.09 202.01
kFourCornerCode	2421.0
kGB0	2715
kGB1	2715
kGradeLevel	3
kGSR	0019a
kHangul	화:0E
kHanYu	10109.040
kHanyuPinlu	huà(2148)
kHanyuPinyin	10109.040:huà,huā,huò
kHKGlyph	0410
kIICore	AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	0342.040
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10109.040
kIRGKangXi	0152.200
kIRG_GSource	G0-3B2F
kIRG_HSource	HB1-A4C6
kIRG_JSource	J0-323D
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-F6B2
kIRG_KSource	K0-7B79
kIRG_TSource	T1-4527
kIRG_VSource	V1-4D59
kJapanese	カケガばけるばかすかえるかわる
kJoyoKanji	2010
kKoreanEducationHanja	2007
kTGH	2013:132
kJapaneseKun	BAKERU KAWARU BAKASU
kJapaneseOn	KA KE
kJis0	1829
kKangXi	0152.200
kKarlgren	93
kKorean	HWA
kLau	637
kMainlandTelegraph	0553
kMandarin	huà
kMatthews	2211
kMeyerWempe	441
kMojiJoho	MJ007779 MJ007779:E0102 MJ007778:E0103
kMorohashi	02572:E0103
kNelson	0350
kPhonetic	335
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+1341+9.2.2 C+1341+21.2.2 V+13665+9.2.2 V+13665+21.2.2
kRSUnicode	21.2
kSBGY	423.39
kSMSZD2003Index	71.13 18.09
kSMSZD2003Readings	huà粵faa3
kTaiwanTelegraph	0553
kTang	*xuɑ̀
kTGHZ2013	143.060:huà
kTotalStrokes	4
kUnihanCore2020	GHJKMPT
kVietnamese	hoá
kXerox	243:047
kXHC1983	0478.030:huā 0486.010:huà