U+5434 "吴" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

吴

U+5434 "吴" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents the surname Wu, one of the most common family names in China, and also refers to the ancient Wu region or kingdom associated with the lower Yangtze River area, such as the state of Wu during the Spring and Autumn period. Historically, the character is composed of a mouth radical (口) on top and a person (人) or variant below, evoking meanings like a person shouting or calling out, though its etymology traces back to a pictographic or phonetic form in oracle bone script. In modern usage, "吴" appears in place names, historical texts, and cultural references, including the Wu dialect or cuisine from Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. This ideograph is classified under the Kangxi radical 30 (口) and is encoded as a common CJK character in the Unicode standard, supporting its widespread use in traditional and simplified Chinese, Japanese, and Korean contexts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5434
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	吴
HTML Hex Encoding	吴
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x90 0xB4
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5434
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005434
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5434

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

kCCCII	216E71
kCNS1986	E-247B
kCNS1992	3-247B
kCangjie	RMK
kCantonese	ng4
kDaeJaweon	0397.010
kDefinition	name of warring state; surname
kEACC	2D355C
kFanqie	五乎
kFourCornerCode	6080
kGB0	4666
kGB1	4666
kHanYu	10585.030
kHanyuPinyin	10585.030:wú,tūn
kIICore	AG
kIRGDaeJaweon	0397.010
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10585.030
kIRGKangXi	0179.070
kIRG_GSource	G0-4E62
kIRG_HSource	H-8C75
kIRG_JSource	J1-346D
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-3963
kIRG_TSource	T3-247B
kJapanese	ゴくれ
kTGH	2013:718
kJapaneseKun	KURE KURERU
kJapaneseOn	GO
kJis1	2077
kKangXi	0179.070
kKorean	O
kMainlandTelegraph	0702
kMandarin	wú
kMojiJoho	MJ008109
kMorohashi	03366
kPhonetic	948
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+19223+30.3.4
kRSUnicode	30.4
kSimplifiedVariant	"吴" U+5434 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	95.08
kTaiwanTelegraph	8160
kTang	*ngo
kTGHZ2013	388.140:wú
kTotalStrokes	7
kTraditionalVariant	"吳" U+5433 CJK Unified Ideograph-# "吴" U+5434 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	GH
kXHC1983	1218.110:wú
kZVariant	U+5433 U+5449