U+53A8 "厨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+53A8 "厨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "kitchen" or denotes a cook or chef, and it is used in both traditional and simplified Chinese scripts. This logogram is composed of the radical 厂 (cliff) combined with the phonetic component 壴 (zhu), though its modern form often simplifies the internal structure. In East Asian languages, it appears in common words such as 厨房 (chú fáng, meaning kitchen) and 厨师 (chú shī, meaning chef), and it is frequently employed in everyday contexts related to cooking, food preparation, and culinary professions.

General Properties

Code Point U+53A8
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 厨
HTML Hex Encoding 厨
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0x8E 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding 0x53A8
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000053A8
C/C++/Java Escape \u53a8

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

kCCCII 333D28
kCNS1986 E-3A27
kCNS1992 3-3A27
kCangjie MMTI
kCantonese cyu4
kCihaiT 231.204
kCowles 591
kDaeJaweon 0370.160
kDefinition kitchen; closet; cupboard
kEACC 333D28
kFanqie 直誅
kFennIndex 97.04
kFourCornerCode 7124.0
kGB0 1988
kGB1 1988
kHanYu 10075.240
kHanyuPinlu chú(48)
kIICore AGJ
kIRGDaeJaweon 0370.160
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10075.240
kIRGKangXi 0162.371
kIRG_GSource G0-3378
kIRG_HSource H-FBFA
kIRG_JSource J0-3F5F
kIRG_KPSource KP1-38E8
kIRG_KSource K2-257E
kIRG_TSource T3-3A27
kJapanese ズ チュウ チュ くりや
kJinmeiyoKanji 2010
kTGH 2013:2587
kJapaneseKun KURIYA
kJapaneseOn ZU CHUU
kJis0 3163
kKangXi 0162.371
kKorean CWU
kLau 380 381 411 412
kMainlandTelegraph 1676
kMandarin chú
kMatthews 1400
kMeyerWempe 363
kMojiJoho MJ007947
kMorohashi 03005
kNelson 0829 1527
kPhonetic 266 1241A
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+2597+27.2.10
kRSUnicode 27.10
kSemanticVariant U+3551 U+5EDA<kMatthews,kMeyerWempe U+2228D
kSimplifiedVariant "厨" U+53A8 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index 80.08
kSpecializedSemanticVariant U+2228D
kTGHZ2013 050.010:chú
kTotalStrokes 12
kTraditionalVariant "厨" U+53A8 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
"廚" U+5EDA CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 GHJ
kXHC1983 0158.020:chú