U+53B9 "厹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+53B9 "厹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and archaic Chinese character that historically functions as a variant form of the character 蹂, meaning "to trample" or "to tread upon," and is composed of the radical for a cliff or factory (厂) over the element for a ball or ball-shaped object (㕡). Distinct from the more common character 厹 (often confused with 九 or 丸 due to visual similarity), this glyph appears in classical texts and lexicons such as the Kangxi Dictionary, where it is noted for its phonetic and semantic connections to actions of pressing or milling. Due to its obscurity, it is seldom used in modern Chinese or Japanese writing and is primarily of interest to scholars of historical linguistics and paleography.

General Properties

Code Point U+53B9
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 厹
HTML Hex Encoding 厹
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0x8E 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding 0x53B9
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000053B9
C/C++/Java Escape \u53b9

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 C958
kCCCII 216E2E
kCNS1986 2-2138
kCNS1992 2-2138
kCangjie KNI
kCantonese kau4
kCihaiT 232.103
kDaeJaweon 0371.300
kDefinition spear; tribe
kEACC 216E2E
kFanqie 巨鳩
kFourCornerCode 4773.1
kGB3 1948
kGSR 0992q
kHangul 구:1N
kHanYu 10384.050
kHanyuPinyin 10384.050:róu,qiú
kIRGDaeJaweon 0371.300
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10384.050
kIRGKangXi 0164.070
kIRG_GSource G3-3350
kIRG_HSource HB2-C958
kIRG_JSource JMJ-007973
kIRG_KPSource KP1-38F9
kIRG_KSource K1-5A4A
kIRG_TSource T2-2138
kJapanese ジュウ ニュウ キュウ グ
kKoreanName 2015
kJapaneseOn JIU NIYU KIU GU
kKangXi 0164.070
kKorean KWU
kMandarin róu
kMeyerWempe 1086d
kMojiJoho MJ007973
kMorohashi 03065
kPhonetic 587
kRSUnicode 28.2
kSBGY 210.17
kSemanticVariant U+53F4<kMeyerWempe
kTaiwanTelegraph 0636
kTotalStrokes 4
kUnihanCore2020 HMT
kXerox 302:105