U+53D5 "叕" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+53D5 "叕" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare Chinese character that traditionally means "to connect" or "to link together," and it is composed of four instances of the component "又" (meaning "again" or "also") arranged in a grid-like pattern. While it is not commonly used in modern Chinese, it appears in classical texts and has a recognized pronunciation in standard Mandarin as "zhuó" or "yǐ." This character is classified under the Kangxi radical 29 (又) and consists of 8 strokes, though its complexity arises from its repetitive structure rather than a high stroke count. In contemporary contexts, it is mostly encountered in specialized linguistic studies, historical documents, or as a typographical curiosity within the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideographs block.

General Properties

Code Point	U+53D5
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	叕
HTML Hex Encoding	叕
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x8F 0x95
UTF-16 Encoding	0x53D5
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000053D5
C/C++/Java Escape	\u53d5

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	216E46
kCNS1986	E-276B
kCNS1992	3-276B
kCangjie	EEEE
kCantonese	zyut3
kDaeJaweon	0377.010
kDefinition	to connect
kFanqie	陟劣
kFenn	534P
kFennIndex	89.03
kFourCornerCode	7744.7
kGB5	2125
kGSR	0295a
kHanYu	10397.040
kHanyuPinyin	10397.040:zhuó,yǐ,lì,jué
kIRGDaeJaweon	0377.010
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10397.040
kIRGKangXi	0166.030
kIRG_GSource	G5-3539
kIRG_JSource	J14-235F
kIRG_KSource	K2-262D
kIRG_TSource	T3-276B
kJapanese	テツ テチ ケツ ゲツ
kTGH	2013:6746
kJIS0213	2,03,63
kJapaneseKun	TSUZURU SUMIYAKA
kJapaneseOn	TETSU TECHI GETSU
kJis1	2060
kKangXi	0166.030
kKorean	CHEL
kMandarin	zhuó
kMojiJoho	MJ008003
kMorohashi	03157
kPhonetic	283
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+17343+29.2.6
kRSUnicode	29.6
kSBGY	499.28
kSMSZD2003Index	84.15
kSMSZD2003Readings	zhuó粵zyut3
kTGHZ2013	489.190:zhuó
kTotalStrokes	8
kUnihanCore2020	G
kStrange	U