U+537B "卻" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
卻
U+537B "卻" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that traditionally means "but," "yet," "however," or "to retreat," and it is used in both Classical and Modern Chinese to express contrast or concession in a sentence, similar to the English conjunction "yet" or "still." In Japanese, it is adopted as a kanji with a similar meaning of "instead" or "contrary to expectation," and it appears in words like "kyaku" to denote a turning away or refusal. This character is composed of the radical "卩" (seal) on the right, which relates to kneeling or sealing, and the component "去" (go, leave) on the left, suggesting the act of moving away or stepping back.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+537B |
| 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 | 卻 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 卻 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x8D 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x537B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000537B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u537b |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | AB6F |
| kCCCII | 213473 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5033 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5033 |
| kCangjie | CRSL |
| kCantonese | koek3 |
| kCihaiT | 227.501 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0365.110 |
| kDefinition | still, but; decline; retreat |
| kEACC | 213473 |
| kFanqie | 居勺 去約 |
| kFennIndex | 122.04 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4772.0 8762.0 |
| kGradeLevel | 4 |
| kGSR | 0776b |
| kHangul | 각:1N |
| kHanYu | 10317.020 |
| kHanyuPinlu | què(1157) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10317.020:què,jiǎo,xì |
| kHKGlyph | 0452 |
| kIICore | AGTHM |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0365.110 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10317.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0159.280 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-327B |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-AB6F |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-524A |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-38C9 |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-5730 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5033 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-4D7A |
| kJapanese | カク キャク しりぞく |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | SHIRIZOKU SHIRIZOKERU KAETTE |
| kJapaneseOn | KYAKU |
| kJis0 | 5042 |
| kKangXi | 0159.280 |
| kKarlgren | 501 |
| kKorean | KAK |
| kLau | 1690 |
| kMandarin | què |
| kMatthews | 1183 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1127a |
| kMojiJoho | MJ007906 MJ007906:E0101 MJ007907:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 02867 02867:E0101 |
| kNelson | 4459 |
| kPhonetic | 681 739 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+4319+26.2.7 C+4319+150.7.2 |
| kRSUnicode | 26.7 |
| kSBGY | 501.44 502.31 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+5374<kLau,kMatthews,kMeyerWempe |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "却" U+5374 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 78.10 658.10 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | què粵koek3 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0611 |
| kTang | *kiɑk |
| kTotalStrokes | 9 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJMT |
| kVietnamese | khước |
| kXerox | 244:157 |
| kXHC1983 | 0951.051:què |