U+5409 "吉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
吉
U+5409 "吉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily signifies good luck, fortune, or auspiciousness. Commonly used in East Asian cultures, especially in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing, it appears in festive contexts such as New Year greetings, wedding decorations, and traditional blessings. The character combines components often interpreted as a scholar or gentleman above a mouth or receptacle, symbolizing harmonious or positive speech. As a fundamental ideograph, it is frequently employed in compound words like 吉祥, meaning auspicious or lucky, and maintains a deeply positive cultural connotation across multiple languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5409 |
| 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 | 吉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 吉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x90 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5409 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005409 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5409 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A64E |
| kCCCII | 213540 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-474F |
| kCNS1992 | 1-474F |
| kCangjie | GR |
| kCantonese | gat1 |
| kCihaiT | 250.601 |
| kCowles | 1560 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0389.020 |
| kDefinition | lucky, propitious, good |
| kEACC | 213540 |
| kFanqie | 居質 |
| kFenn | 729E |
| kFennIndex | 34.01 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4060.1 |
| kGB0 | 2810 |
| kGB1 | 2810 |
| kGradeLevel | 5 |
| kGSR | 0393a |
| kHangul | 길:0E |
| kHanYu | 10576.060 |
| kHanyuPinlu | jí(13) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10576.060:jí |
| kHKGlyph | 0493 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0389.020 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10576.060 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0175.020 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3C2A |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A64E |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3548 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-D2F9 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-514E |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-474F |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-4E47 |
| kJapanese | キチ キツ よい |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:356 |
| kJapaneseKun | YOI |
| kJapaneseOn | KICHI KITSU |
| kJis0 | 2140 |
| kKangXi | 0175.020 |
| kKarlgren | 325 |
| kKorean | KIL |
| kLau | 858 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0679 |
| kMandarin | jí |
| kMatthews | 476 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1057 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008064 |
| kMorohashi | 03289 |
| kNelson | 1053 |
| kPhonetic | 582 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1634+30.3.3 C+1634+33.3.3 |
| kRSUnicode | 30.3 |
| kSBGY | 469.09 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 90.04 143.04 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | jí粵gat1 |
| kSpoofingVariant | U+20BB7 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0679 |
| kTang | git |
| kTGHZ2013 | 155.040:jí |
| kTotalStrokes | 6 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | cát |
| kXerox | 250:101 |
| kXHC1983 | 0525.090:jí |