U+53DC "叜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
叜
U+53DC "叜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and ancient Chinese character that primarily appears in classical texts and historical contexts, where it functions as a variant form of the character 叟, meaning an old man or an elder. Its structure combines the radical for "again" (又) with elements suggesting a hand or action, and it is found in early Chinese dictionaries like the Shuowen Jiezi, where it is noted for its use in classical literature to denote an aged person or, in some interpretations, a person who searches or inspects. This character is not commonly used in modern Chinese or Japanese writing, but it remains a point of interest for scholars studying the evolution of Chinese script and paleography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+53DC |
| 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 | 叜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 叜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x8F 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x53DC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000053DC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u53dc |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 333529 |
| kCNS1986 | E-2B4E |
| kCNS1992 | 3-2B4E |
| kCangjie | JFE |
| kCantonese | sau2 |
| kCihaiT | 237.103 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0378.070 |
| kDefinition | old man |
| kEACC | 333529 |
| kFanqie | 蘇后 |
| kGB5 | 2126 |
| kGSR | 1097a |
| kHanYu | 10398.030 |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0378.070 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10398.030 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0166.130 |
| kIRG_GSource | G5-353A |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-008013 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-3913 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-2630 |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-2B4E |
| kJapanese | ソウ シュ おきな |
| kKangXi | 0166.130 |
| kMandarin | sǒu |
| kMatthews | 5470 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008013 MJ008013:E0100 MJ057139:E0101 |
| kMorohashi | 03167 03167:E0100 |
| kPhonetic | 1141 |
| kRSUnicode | 29.7 |
| kSBGY | 326.43 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+5081<kMatthews U+53DF<kMatthews |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 84.22 168.10 |
| kTotalStrokes | 9 |
| kXHC1983 | 1094.041:sǒu |