U+53A8 "厨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
厨
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
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 |