U+5348 "午" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
午
U+5348 "午" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that traditionally signifies "noon" or the "seventh Earthly Branch" in the Chinese zodiac, associated with the horse and the period from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. It is commonly used in East Asian languages to denote midday, and it appears in compounds such as 午餐 (wǔcān, meaning lunch) and 午休 (wǔxiū, meaning midday break). The character's form is pictorially derived from an ancient depiction of a pestle, reflecting its original meaning related to a tool for pounding, though its modern usage focuses on temporal and symbolic references. In Unicode, it belongs to the CJK Unified Ideographs block, encompassing shared characters used in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5348 |
| 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 | 午 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 午 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x8D 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5348 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005348 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5348 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A4C8 |
| kCCCII | 21345A |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4529 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4529 |
| kCangjie | OJ |
| kCantonese | ng5 |
| kCihaiT | 214.401 |
| kCowles | 2965 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0354.010 |
| kDefinition | seventh earthly branch |
| kEACC | 21345A |
| kFanqie | 疑古 |
| kFenn | 37A |
| kFennIndex | 608.03 |
| kFourCornerCode | 8040.0 |
| kGB0 | 4671 |
| kGB1 | 4671 |
| kGradeLevel | 1 |
| kGSR | 0060a |
| kHangul | 오:0E |
| kHanYu | 10406.010 |
| kHanyuPinlu | wǔ(258) wu(12) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10406.010:wǔ |
| kHKGlyph | 0427 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0354.010 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10406.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0156.040 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4E67 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A4C8 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3861 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F9CE |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-676D |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4529 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-4D67 |
| kJapanese | ゴ うま |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:119 |
| kJapaneseKun | UMA |
| kJapaneseOn | GO |
| kJis0 | 2465 |
| kKangXi | 0156.040 |
| kKorean | O |
| kLau | 2294 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0582 |
| kMandarin | wǔ |
| kMatthews | 7177 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1990 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ007841 |
| kMorohashi | 02703 |
| kNelson | 0162 |
| kPhonetic | 950 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1941+24.2.2 |
| kRSUnicode | 24.2 |
| kSBGY | 266.16 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 74.06 8.08 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | wǔ粵ng5 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0582 |
| kTang | ngǒ |
| kTGHZ2013 | 389.050:wǔ |
| kTotalStrokes | 4 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | ngọ |
| kXerox | 243:161 |
| kXHC1983 | 1223.010:wǔ |