U+53B8 "厸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
厸
U+53B8 "厸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and archaic Chinese character composed of two “口” (mouth) radicals stacked vertically, visually resembling two mouths facing each other. While its primary ancient meaning is debated, it is often interpreted as an early variant of the character 吼 (hǒu), meaning to roar or shout, and it appears in some classical dictionaries such as the Kangxi Zidian. In very specialized contexts, it may also function as a phonetic component in other rare characters, though it is virtually unused in modern Chinese or Japanese writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+53B8 |
| 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 | 厸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 厸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x8E 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x53B8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000053B8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u53b8 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 236C4E |
| kCangjie | XXII |
| kCantonese | leon4 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0371.290 |
| kFanqie | 明忝 |
| kHanYu | 10384.070 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10384.070:lín,min |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0371.290 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10384.070 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0164.060 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-3329 |
| kIRG_JSource | J1-3454 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-38FB |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-2627 |
| kIRG_TSource | T4-2145 |
| kJapanese | リン |
| kJapaneseKun | TONARU TONARI |
| kJapaneseOn | RIN |
| kJis1 | 2052 |
| kKangXi | 0164.060 |
| kKorean | LIN |
| kMandarin | lín |
| kMojiJoho | MJ007972 |
| kMorohashi | 03064 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+21242+28.2.2 |
| kRSUnicode | 28.2 |
| kSBGY | 336.14 |
| kTotalStrokes | 4 |