U+53F5 "叵" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+53F5 "叵" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily functions as an adverb meaning "cannot" or "impossible," often used in classical or literary contexts to express a sense of prohibition or inability. It is a relatively rare character in modern Chinese, appearing more frequently in historical texts or fixed expressions. The character is composed of the radical "匚" (a box or enclosure) with the semantic component "口" (mouth) inside, and its structure suggests the idea of something being enclosed or blocked. Historically, it has been used to convey negation or difficulty, such as in the phrase "叵耐" (cannot endure).

General Properties

Code Point U+53F5
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 叵
HTML Hex Encoding 叵
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0x8F 0xB5
UTF-16 Encoding 0x53F5
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000053F5
C/C++/Java Escape \u53f5

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

kBigFive A572
kCCCII 21344B
kCNS1986 1-4634
kCNS1992 1-4634
kCangjie SR
kCantonese po2
kCihaiT 246.402
kDaeJaweon 0385.050
kDefinition cannot, be unable do, improbable; thereupon
kEACC 21344B
kFanqie 普火
kFenn 640K
kFennIndex 420.07
kFourCornerCode 7171.6
kGB0 5647
kGB1 5647
kHangul 파:1N
kHanYu 10082.030
kHanyuPinyin 10082.030:pǒ
kHKGlyph 0484
kIICore AGTH
kIRGDaeJaweon 0385.050
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10082.030
kIRGKangXi 0173.090
kIRG_GSource G0-584F
kIRG_HSource HB1-A572
kIRG_JSource J14-2363
kIRG_KPSource KP1-3929
kIRG_KSource K1-7167
kIRG_TSource T1-4634
kJapanese
kKoreanName 2015
kTGH 2013:3533
kJIS0213 2,03,67
kJapaneseKun DEKINAI SUKOBURU TSUINI
kJapaneseOn HA
kJis1 2067
kKangXi 0173.090
kKarlgren 24
kKorean PHA
kLau 2544
kMainlandTelegraph 0672
kMandarin
kMatthews 5349
kMeyerWempe 2440a
kMojiJoho MJ008045
kMorohashi 03254
kPhonetic 487 1076
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+14374+22.2.3 C+14374+30.3.2
kRSUnicode 30.2
kSBGY 307.08
kSemanticVariant U+5C00<kLau,kMatthews
kSMSZD2003Index 89.04 72.13
kSMSZD2003Readings pǒ粵po2
kTaiwanTelegraph 0672
kTGHZ2013 287.060:pǒ
kTotalStrokes 5
kUnihanCore2020 GHMT
kXerox 276:323
kXHC1983 0884.140:pǒ