U+53EA "只" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
只
U+53EA "只" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that functions primarily as a measure word for animals, especially those that are small or paired, such as birds or hands, and also serves as an adverb meaning "only" or "merely." Its traditional form is distinguished from the simplified version, though both share the same encoding, and it is composed of the radical "口" (mouth) over "八" (eight), reflecting its historical development from a pictograph representing a hand holding a bird. In modern usage, "只" is a high-frequency character in Chinese text, appearing in everyday contexts from counting objects to emphasizing singularity or limitation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+53EA |
| 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 | 只 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 只 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x8F 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x53EA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000053EA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u53ea |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A575 |
| kCCCII | 21353C |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4637 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4637 |
| kCangjie | RC |
| kCantonese | zi2 |
| kCihaiT | 243.401 |
| kCowles | 176 220 241 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0383.010 |
| kDefinition | only, just, simply |
| kEACC | 275F3E |
| kFanqie | 章移 諸氏 |
| kFenn | 757A |
| kFennIndex | 68.03 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6080.0 |
| kGB0 | 5427 |
| kGB1 | 8903 |
| kGradeLevel | 1 |
| kGSR | 0865a |
| kHangul | 지:0E |
| kHanYu | 10570.030 |
| kHanyuPinlu | zhǐ(3118) zhī(749) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10570.030:zhǐ,zhī |
| kHKGlyph | 0487 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0383.010 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10570.030 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0172.050 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-563B |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A575 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-427E |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-EAD0 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-717E |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4637 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-4E38 |
| kJapanese | シ シツ シチ ただ |
| kJinmeiyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:246 |
| kJapaneseKun | TADA |
| kJapaneseOn | SHI |
| kJis0 | 3494 |
| kKangXi | 0172.050 |
| kKorean | CI |
| kLau | 1428 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0662 |
| kMandarin | zhǐ |
| kMatthews | 946 |
| kMeyerWempe | 198 240 268 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008030 |
| kMorohashi | 03239 |
| kNelson | 0874 |
| kPhonetic | 100 140 164 1184 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2910+12.2.3 C+2910+30.3.2 |
| kRSUnicode | 30.2 |
| kSBGY | 040.38 240.27 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+5B50<kLau |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "只" U+53EA CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 87.08 48.04 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | zhǐ粵zi2 |
| kSpecializedSemanticVariant | U+7947 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0662 |
| kTang | *jǐɛ |
| kTGHZ2013 | 475.020:zhī 476.130:zhǐ |
| kTotalStrokes | 5 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "只" U+53EA CJK Unified Ideograph-# "戠" U+6220 CJK Unified Ideograph-# "衹" U+8879 CJK Unified Ideograph-# "隻" U+96BB CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | chỉ |
| kXerox | 241:327 |
| kXHC1983 | 1480.060:zhī 1486.140:zhǐ |