U+5468 "周" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+5468 "周" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that carries rich historical and cultural significance, commonly used in modern and classical contexts. Its original form depicted fields or a pattern inside a boundary, symbolizing the concept of a cycle, circumference, or a complete circuit, which led to meanings such as "week," "periphery," "to encircle," and "to assist." This character is also central as a surname and appears in the name of the influential Zhou dynasty, an ancient Chinese ruling house, as well as in terms like "周边" for surroundings and "周期" for a period or cycle. In East Asian languages, it is frequently employed in words related to time, space, and comprehensive coverage, reflecting its role as a foundational ideograph in written Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.

General Properties

Code Point U+5468
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 周
HTML Hex Encoding 周
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0x91 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding 0x5468
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00005468
C/C++/Java Escape \u5468

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 A950
kCCCII 213574
kCNS1986 1-4C52
kCNS1992 1-4C52
kCangjie BGR
kCantonese zau1
kCowles 156
kDaeJaweon 0400.050
kDefinition Zhou dynasty; circumference
kEACC 213574
kFanqie 職流
kFenn 730C
kFennIndex 90.02
kFourCornerCode 7722.0
kGB0 5460
kGB1 5460
kGradeLevel 3
kGSR 1083a
kHangul 주:0E
kHanYu 10606.030
kHanyuPinlu zhōu(396)
kHanyuPinyin 10606.030:zhōu
kHKGlyph 0552
kIICore AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon 0400.050
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10606.030
kIRGKangXi 0181.360
kIRG_GSource G0-565C
kIRG_HSource HB1-A950
kIRG_JSource J0-3C7E
kIRG_KPSource KP0-E9E2
kIRG_KSource K0-7132
kIRG_TSource T1-4C52
kIRG_VSource V1-4E6A
kJapanese シュウ シュ ス まわり あまねし めぐらす めぐる
kJoyoKanji 2010
kKoreanEducationHanja 2007
kTGH 2013:1192
kJapaneseKun MAWARI AMANESHI MEGURU
kJapaneseOn SHUU
kJis0 2894
kKangXi 0181.360
kKorean CWU
kLau 1352
kMainlandTelegraph 0719
kMandarin zhōu
kMatthews 1293
kMeyerWempe 170
kMojiJoho MJ008159 MJ008159:E0102 MJ008158:E0103
kMorohashi 03441' 03441':E0102 03441:E0103
kNelson 0622
kPhonetic 80
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+2346+30.3.5
kRSUnicode 30.5
kSBGY 206.14
kSemanticVariant U+9031<kLau
kSMSZD2003Index 96.07
kSMSZD2003Readings zhōu粵zau1
kTaiwanTelegraph 0719
kTang *jiou
kTGHZ2013 481.130:zhōu
kTotalStrokes 8
kUnihanCore2020 GHJKMPT
kVietnamese chu
kXerox 243:345
kXHC1983 1504.100:zhōu