U+544B "呋" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+544B "呋" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used in written Chinese and Japanese, primarily as a component in phonetic transcriptions and transliterations. It is pronounced "fū" in Mandarin and is often found in words related to chemical or scientific terminology, such as 呋喃 (fū nán), which refers to furan, a heterocyclic organic compound. The character originally appears in classical texts, but its modern usage is largely confined to specialized fields like chemistry, where it helps represent foreign sounds in loanwords. In Unicode, it is classified under the CJK Unified Ideographs block, encompassing characters from historical and contemporary East Asian scripts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+544B
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	呋
HTML Hex Encoding	呋
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x91 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding	0x544B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000544B
C/C++/Java Escape	\u544b

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

kCNS1986	E-2478
kCNS1992	3-2478
kCangjie	RQO
kCantonese	fu1
kDaeJaweon	0399.160
kDefinition	(呋喃) furan (C₄H₄O)
kEACC	4D386F
kFanqie	甫無
kFourCornerCode	6508
kGB0	6327
kGB1	6327
kHanYu	10585.050
kHanyuPinyin	10585.050:fū
kIRGDaeJaweon	0399.160
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10585.050
kIRGKangXi	0181.191
kIRG_GSource	G0-5F3B
kIRG_HSource	H-9EC0
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-008137
kIRG_TSource	T3-2478
kIRG_VSource	V2-6F77
kJapanese	フ
kTGH	2013:3698
kJapaneseOn	FU
kKangXi	0181.191
kMainlandTelegraph	0718
kMandarin	fū
kMojiJoho	MJ008137
kMorohashi	03405
kRSUnicode	30.4
kSMSZD2003Index	95.05
kSMSZD2003Readings	fū粵fu1
kTGHZ2013	099.050:fū
kTotalStrokes	7
kUnihanCore2020	GH
kXerox	320:143
kXHC1983	0334.020:fū