U+53C1 "叁" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
叁
U+53C1 "叁" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used as the formal or financial numeral for the number three, primarily to prevent forgery or alteration in monetary contexts such as writing checks or contracts. It is an alternative form of the simpler numeral 三 (sān) and is one of a set of complex characters employed in legal and financial documents across East Asia. The character 叁 is composed of radicals that suggest a combination of elements related to gathering or multiplicity, and it appears in historical texts as a variant with similar pronunciation and meaning.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+53C1 |
| 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 | 叁 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 叁 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x8F 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x53C1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000053C1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u53c1 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kAccountingNumeric | 3 |
| kCCCII | 216E33 |
| kCNS1986 | E-2769 |
| kCNS1992 | 3-2769 |
| kCangjie | IKMMM |
| kCantonese | saam1 |
| kCihaiT | 232.404 |
| kCowles | 3573 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0372.270 |
| kDefinition | bank form of numeral 'three' |
| kEACC | 33347D |
| kFanqie | 蘇甘 |
| kFennIndex | 428.05 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2310 |
| kGB0 | 4094 |
| kGB1 | 4094 |
| kHanYu | 10386.130 |
| kIICore | AGHM |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0372.270 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10386.130 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0164.211 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-487E |
| kIRG_HSource | H-FAE2 |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-007980 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-38FF |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-2769 |
| kJapanese | サン |
| kTGH | 2013:1333 |
| kJapaneseKun | MITSU |
| kJapaneseOn | SAN |
| kKangXi | 0164.211 |
| kKorean | SAM |
| kLau | 2599 2600 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0638 |
| kMandarin | sān |
| kMatthews | 5415 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2528 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ007980 |
| kMorohashi | 03089 |
| kPhonetic | 1100 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+19216+28.2.6 |
| kRSUnicode | 28.6 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+4E09<kLau,kMatthews,kMeyerWempe |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 82.11 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | sān粵saam1 |
| kSpecializedSemanticVariant | U+4E09<kFenn |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0638 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 320.020:sān |
| kTotalStrokes | 8 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "叄" U+53C4 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHM |
| kXerox | 262:371 |
| kXHC1983 | 0985.020:sān |