U+546A "呪" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+546A "呪" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character historically used in East Asian writing systems, including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, where it conveys meanings related to incantation, curse, or spell. In Japanese, it is commonly associated with curses or magical utterances, often appearing in contexts of folklore, religious rituals, or popular culture like anime and manga. The character itself is composed of elements that suggest speech or mouth actions combined with concepts of prophecy or divine influence, reflecting its cultural significance as a symbol of spoken supernatural power. As part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block, it serves as a standardized representation for this ideograph across different languages and digital platforms.

General Properties

Code Point	U+546A
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	呪
HTML Hex Encoding	呪
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x91 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding	0x546A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000546A
C/C++/Java Escape	\u546a

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	216F46
kCNS1986	E-2778
kCNS1992	3-2778
kCangjie	RRHU
kCantonese	zau3
kCihaiT	265.301
kCowles	164
kDaeJaweon	0401.020
kDefinition	curse, damn, incantation
kEACC	2D3571
kFanqie	職救
kFenn	755C
kFennIndex	90.12
kFourCornerCode	6601.0
kHangul	주:0N
kHanYu	10601.030
kHanyuPinyin	10601.030:zhòu
kIICore	AJKP
kIRGDaeJaweon	0401.020
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10601.030
kIRGKangXi	0182.020
kIRG_GSource	GE-3346
kIRG_HSource	H-9AC7
kIRG_JSource	J0-3C76
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-E9E1
kIRG_KSource	K0-7131
kIRG_TSource	T3-2778
kJapanese	ジュ シュ ズ シュウ のろい のろう まじない
kJoyoKanji	2010
kKoreanName	2015
kJapaneseKun	NOROU NOROI
kJapaneseOn	JU SHUU
kJis0	2886
kKangXi	0182.020
kKarlgren	163
kKorean	CWU
kLau	1358
kMandarin	zhòu
kMeyerWempe	176
kMojiJoho	MJ008161
kMorohashi	03443
kNelson	0912
kPhonetic	85 302 445 474
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+2338+30.3.5
kRSUnicode	30.5
kSBGY	435.30
kSemanticVariant	U+8A4B<kFenn U+5492<kLau
kSMSZD2003Index	99.11
kTotalStrokes	8
kUnihanCore2020	HJKP
kXerox	264:066
kXHC1983	1506.101:zhòu