U+53F0 "台" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
U+53F0 "台" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily conveys the meanings of "platform," "stage," or "terrace," and also serves as an abbreviation for Taiwan in modern contexts. Its traditional form is "臺," which appears in classical texts to refer to elevated structures for observation or performance, while the simplified "台" is also used historically as a phonetic loan in words like "Taiwan" or in terms such as "台风" meaning typhoon. In addition to its use in Chinese, the character appears in Japanese as "台" with similar meanings, such as in "台所" for kitchen, and in Korean hanja with the pronunciation "dae" for concepts like platform or stand. This character thus exemplifies the evolution of a shared logographic symbol across multiple East Asian languages, bridging ancient architectural references with contemporary place names and everyday usage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+53F0 |
| 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 | 台 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 台 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x8F 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x53F0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000053F0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u53f0 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A578 |
| kCCCII | 213538 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-463A |
| kCNS1992 | 1-463A |
| kCangjie | IR |
| kCantonese | toi4 |
| kCihaiT | 244.401 |
| kCowles | 4423 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0384.010 |
| kDefinition | platform; unit; term of address |
| kEACC | 283B7D |
| kFanqie | 與之 土來 |
| kFennIndex | 490.08 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2360.0 |
| kGB0 | 4408 |
| kGB1 | 8875 |
| kGradeLevel | 3 |
| kGSR | 0976p |
| kHangul | 태:0N |
| kHanYu | 10575.020 |
| kHanyuPinlu | tái(530) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10575.020:yí,tái,sì |
| kHKGlyph | 0490 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0384.010 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10575.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0172.130 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4C28 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A578 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4266 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F0D1 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-773B |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-463A |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-4E3D |
| kJapanese | ダイ タイ イ シ ジ うてな |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:342 |
| kJapaneseKun | UTENA YOROKOBU |
| kJapaneseOn | DAI TAI I |
| kJis0 | 3470 |
| kKangXi | 0172.130 |
| kKarlgren | 181 |
| kKorean | THAY I |
| kLau | 3104 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0669 |
| kMandarin | tái |
| kMatthews | 6008 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3198 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008038 |
| kMorohashi | 03246 |
| kNelson | 0848 |
| kPhonetic | 1373 1374 1549 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2886+28.2.3 C+2886+30.3.2 |
| kRSUnicode | 30.2 |
| kSBGY | 059.15 100.45 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+81FA<kHKGlyph,kLau |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "台" U+53F0 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 88.06 82.02 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | tái粵toi4 tāi粵toi4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0669 |
| kTang | *təi |
| kTGHZ2013 | 356.090:tāi 356.120,356.130,356.140,356.150:tái |
| kTotalStrokes | 5 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "台" U+53F0 CJK Unified Ideograph-# "檯" U+6AAF CJK Unified Ideograph-# "臺" U+81FA CJK Unified Ideograph-# "颱" U+98B1 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | thai |
| kVietnameseNumeric | 2 |
| kXerox | 242:156 |
| kXHC1983 | 1108.010:tāi 1108.070:tái |