U+53F3 "右" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
右
U+53F3 "右" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that means "right" or "right side," commonly used in East Asian languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. In Chinese, it is pronounced "yòu" and is an essential component in words like "右边" (right side) and "右手" (right hand), while in Japanese it is read as "migi" in kun'yomi and "u" or "yū" in on'yomi, appearing in terms like "右翼" (right wing) and "右折" (right turn). The character is composed of the radical "口" (mouth) on the bottom and the component "又" (again or right hand) on the top, originally depicting a hand reaching to the right, symbolizing direction and conventional association with correctness or the west in traditional cosmology.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+53F3 |
| 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 | 右 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 右 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x8F 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x53F3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000053F3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u53f3 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A56B |
| kCCCII | 213532 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-462D |
| kCNS1992 | 1-462D |
| kCangjie | KR |
| kCantonese | jau6 |
| kCihaiT | 245.601 |
| kCowles | 5164 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0385.010 |
| kDefinition | right; west; right-wing |
| kEACC | 213532 |
| kFanqie | 云久 于救 |
| kFenn | 181B |
| kFennIndex | 639.10 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4060.0 |
| kGB0 | 5150 |
| kGB1 | 5150 |
| kGradeLevel | 1 |
| kGSR | 0995i |
| kHangul | 우:0E |
| kHanYu | 10569.010 |
| kHanyuPinlu | yòu(490) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10569.010:yòu |
| kHKGlyph | 0477 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0385.010 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10569.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0173.050 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5352 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A56B |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3126 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-FADC |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6953 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-462D |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-4E40 |
| kJapanese | ウ ユウ みぎ たすける |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:217 |
| kJapaneseKun | MIGI TASUKERU |
| kJapaneseOn | U YUU |
| kJis0 | 1706 |
| kKangXi | 0173.050 |
| kKarlgren | 249 |
| kKorean | WU |
| kLau | 3370 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0671 |
| kMandarin | yòu |
| kMatthews | 7541 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3859 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008043 |
| kMorohashi | 03250 |
| kNelson | 0878 |
| kPhonetic | 1518 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1224+30.3.2 |
| kRSUnicode | 30.2 |
| kSBGY | 321.08 434.22 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 89.03 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | yòu粵jau6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0671 |
| kTang | *hiòu |
| kTGHZ2013 | 444.180:yòu |
| kTotalStrokes | 5 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | hữu |
| kXerox | 245:367 |
| kXHC1983 | 1405.010:yòu |