U+53F2 "史" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
史
U+53F2 "史" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese ideograph that fundamentally means "history" or "chronicle," and it is also used to refer to a historian or an official record keeper. This character is composed of a radical for a hand or action combined with a component suggesting writing or records, reflecting its etymological connection to the act of recording events. In modern Chinese, Japanese, and Korean usage, it appears in terms like 历史 (lìshǐ, history) and 史記 (Shiji, Records of the Grand Historian), and it also serves as a common surname in East Asian cultures.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+53F2 |
| 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 | 史 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 史 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x8F 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x53F2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000053F2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u53f2 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A576 |
| kCCCII | 21353D |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4638 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4638 |
| kCangjie | LK |
| kCantonese | si2 |
| kCihaiT | 245.101 |
| kCowles | 3769 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0384.040 |
| kDefinition | history, chronicle, annals |
| kEACC | 21353D |
| kFanqie | 踈士 |
| kFenn | 169C |
| kFennIndex | 453.02 |
| kFourCornerCode | 5000.6 |
| kGB0 | 4223 |
| kGB1 | 4223 |
| kGSR | 0975a |
| kHangul | 사:0E |
| kHanYu | 10571.020 |
| kHanyuPinlu | shǐ(847) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10571.020:shǐ |
| kHKGlyph | 0488 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0384.040 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10571.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0173.030 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4A37 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A576 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3B4B |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E0CD |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5E48 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4638 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-4E3F |
| kJapanese | シ ふびと ふみ さかん |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:248 |
| kJapaneseKun | FUBITO FUMI SAKAN |
| kJapaneseOn | SHI |
| kJis0 | 2743 |
| kKangXi | 0173.030 |
| kKorean | SA |
| kLau | 2759 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0670 |
| kMandarin | shǐ |
| kMatthews | 5769 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2906 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008041 MJ008041:E0102 MJ008042:E0103 |
| kMorohashi | 03249:E0103 |
| kNelson | 0091 |
| kPhonetic | 322 1177 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2201+30.3.2 V+13451+30.3.2 |
| kRSUnicode | 30.2 |
| kSBGY | 252.09 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 89.02 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | shǐ粵si2 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0670 |
| kTang | *shriə̌ |
| kTGHZ2013 | 335.140:shǐ |
| kTotalStrokes | 5 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | sử |
| kXerox | 245:310 |
| kXHC1983 | 1044.040:shǐ |