U+5357 "南" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+5357 "南" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents the concept of "south," one of the cardinal directions, and is widely used in East Asian languages including Mandarin, Japanese, and Korean. In Chinese, it is pronounced "nán" and appears in common words such as 南方 (nánfāng) meaning "south" or "southern region," and 南瓜 (nánguā) meaning "pumpkin" or literally "south melon." The character's structure combines the radical for "ten" (十) with an enclosure, and historically, it is thought to derive from ancient pictographs depicting a dwelling or a ritual vessel oriented toward the south. Beyond its literal meaning, "南" carries cultural significance in feng shui, geography, and traditional Chinese philosophy, where the south is associated with summer, fire, and the direction of the emperor. In Unicode, it belongs to the CJK Unified Ideographs block and has been encoded since version 1.1, making it a fundamental component of digital text processing for billions of users

General Properties

Code Point	U+5357
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	南
HTML Hex Encoding	南
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x8D 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5357
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005357
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5357

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	AB6E
kCCCII	213463
kCNS1986	1-5032
kCNS1992	1-5032
kCangjie	JBTJ
kCantonese	naam4
kCihaiT	217.301
kCowles	2823
kDaeJaweon	0357.080
kDefinition	south; southern part; southward
kEACC	213463
kFanqie	那含
kFenn	591A
kFennIndex	355.01
kFourCornerCode	4022.7
kGB0	3647
kGB1	3647
kGradeLevel	2
kGSR	0650a
kHangul	남:0E
kHanYu	10065.020
kHanyuPinlu	nán(749)
kHanyuPinyin	10065.020:nán,nā
kHKGlyph	0436
kIICore	AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	0357.080
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10065.020
kIRGKangXi	0157.050
kIRG_GSource	G0-444F
kIRG_HSource	HB1-AB6E
kIRG_JSource	J0-466E
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-D4DC
kIRG_KSource	K0-5175
kIRG_TSource	T1-5032
kIRG_VSource	V1-4D6D
kJapanese	ナン ナ みなみ
kJoyoKanji	2010
kKoreanEducationHanja	2007
kTGH	2013:1422
kJapaneseKun	MINAMI
kJapaneseOn	NAN DAN
kJis0	3878
kKangXi	0157.050
kKorean	NAM
kLau	2246
kMainlandTelegraph	0589
kMandarin	nán
kMatthews	4620
kMeyerWempe	1936
kMojiJoho	MJ007856
kMorohashi	02750
kNelson	0778
kPhonetic	939
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+3270+24.2.7
kRSUnicode	24.7
kSBGY	221.28
kSMSZD2003Index	75.08
kSMSZD2003Readings	nán粵naam4 nā粵naa4
kTaiwanTelegraph	0589
kTang	*nom
kTGHZ2013	260.020:nā 261.170:nán
kTotalStrokes	9
kUnihanCore2020	GHJKMPT
kVietnamese	nam
kXerox	241:363
kXHC1983	0811.040:nā 0815.050:nán