U+53D9 "叙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
叙
U+53D9 "叙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means “to narrate,” “to recount,” or “to order” and is commonly used in modern and classical texts to convey the act of describing or arranging things in a sequence. It is composed of the radical “攵” (meaning “to strike” or “to act”) on the right and the phonetic component “余” on the left, linking it to concepts of narrative structure and social hierarchy. In Chinese, Japanese (as ジョ), and Korean (as 서) contexts, it appears in words such as “叙述” (narrative) and “秩序” (order), reflecting its dual role in both storytelling and organization.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+53D9 |
| 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 | 叙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 叙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x8F 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x53D9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000053D9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u53d9 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 216E4A |
| kCNS1986 | E-2B50 |
| kCNS1992 | 3-2B50 |
| kCangjie | ODE |
| kCantonese | zeoi6 |
| kCihaiT | 237.104 |
| kCowles | 4634 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0378.030 |
| kDefinition | express, state, relate, narrate |
| kEACC | 2D4249 |
| kFennIndex | 191.09 |
| kFourCornerCode | 8794.0 |
| kGB0 | 4880 |
| kGB1 | 4880 |
| kGradeLevel | 3 |
| kHangul | 서:N |
| kHanYu | 10397.150 |
| kHanyuPinlu | xù(18) |
| kHKGlyph | 1715 |
| kIICore | AGJ |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0378.030 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10397.150 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0166.090 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5070 |
| kIRG_HSource | H-FAE7 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3D76 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-3912 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-262E |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-2B50 |
| kIRG_VSource | V2-8A62 |
| kJapanese | ジョ ショ ついず ついで のべる |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:1586 |
| kJapaneseKun | TSUIDERU TSUIDE NOBERU |
| kJapaneseOn | JO |
| kJis0 | 2986 |
| kKangXi | 0166.090 |
| kKorean | SE |
| kLau | 1595 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0650 |
| kMandarin | xù |
| kMatthews | 2842 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008007 |
| kMorohashi | 03163 |
| kNelson | 0862 |
| kPhonetic | 292 1610 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2432+29.2.7 |
| kRSUnicode | 29.7 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+654D<kFenn U+6558<kHKGlyph,kLau,kMatthews |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "叙" U+53D9 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 84.21 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0650 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 413.120:xù |
| kTotalStrokes | 9 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "叙" U+53D9 CJK Unified Ideograph-# "敘" U+6558 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJ |
| kXHC1983 | 1302.160:xù |