U+543A "吺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
吺
U+543A "吺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and obsolete Chinese character used in classical texts, with its primary historical meaning relating to a whispering or murmuring sound, as well as a phonetic component in certain transliterations. It is composed of the radical "口" (mouth) and the phonetic element "殳," reflecting its connection to speech or sounds made by the mouth. In modern usage, the character is extremely uncommon, appearing mostly in specialized dictionaries or ancient literature, and it does not have a widely recognized modern definition or common application in contemporary Chinese writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+543A |
| 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 | 吺 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 吺 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x90 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x543A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000543A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u543a |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 216F23 |
| kCNS1986 | E-2470 |
| kCNS1992 | 3-2470 |
| kCangjie | RHNE |
| kCantonese | dau1 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0397.080 |
| kFanqie | 當侯 |
| kGB3 | 2163 |
| kHanYu | 10593.060 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10593.060:dōu,rú |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0397.080 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10593.060 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0179.140 |
| kIRG_GSource | G3-355F |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-008116 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-264C |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-2470 |
| kJapanese | トウ ツ ジュ ニュ |
| kJapaneseKun | SASAYAKU |
| kJapaneseOn | TOU |
| kKangXi | 0179.140 |
| kKorean | TWU |
| kMandarin | dōu |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008116 |
| kMorohashi | 03374 |
| kRSUnicode | 30.4 |
| kSBGY | 215.16 |
| kTotalStrokes | 7 |