U+53DE "叞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+53DE "叞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) whose primary meaning relates to aromatic herbs or fragrance, and it is sometimes used as a variant or component in classical texts related to medicinal plants or incense. This character is composed of the radical "又" (yòu, meaning "again" or "hand") and the component "㕚" (zhǎo, relating to claws or nails), and it appears in historical Chinese dictionaries and literary works, though it is rare in modern standard usage. In Japanese, it may be associated with the kun'yomi reading "にほい" (nioi) meaning "smell" or "fragrance," and it belongs to the Kangxi radical 29, which is the "又" radical, linking it to other characters involving action or grasping. Overall, U+53DE represents a niche but culturally significant element of East Asian orthography, primarily preserved in scholarly or historical contexts.

General Properties

Code Point U+53DE
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 叞
HTML Hex Encoding 叞
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0x8F 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding 0x53DE
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000053DE
C/C++/Java Escape \u53de

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 236C6F
kCangjie XSFE
kCantonese wai3
kDaeJaweon 0378.110
kGB5 2127
kHanYu 10399.030
kIRGDaeJaweon 0378.110
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10399.030
kIRGKangXi 0166.180
kIRG_GSource G5-353B
kIRG_JSource J1-345F
kIRG_KSource K2-2631
kIRG_TSource T6-3578
kJapanese
kJapaneseOn I
kJis1 2063
kKangXi 0166.180
kKorean WI
kMandarin wèi
kMojiJoho MJ008016
kMorohashi 03173
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+21247+29.2.8
kRSUnicode 29.8
kTotalStrokes 10