U+54E5 "哥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

哥

U+54E5 "哥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that means "elder brother" and is commonly used in East Asian languages, including Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, where it appears in the traditional and simplified Chinese scripts. In Mandarin, it is pronounced "gē" and is frequently employed in familial contexts to address or refer to an older male sibling, but it also carries extended meanings in colloquial usage, such as a term of respect for an older male friend or acquaintance. The character is composed of two vertically stacked instances of the component "可" (kě), which structurally suggests reduplication for emphasis, and it is part of many compound words, like "哥哥" (gēge) for "elder brother" or "大哥" (dàgē) for "big brother" in a literal or figurative sense. As a CJK Unified Ideograph, it belongs to a standardized set of East Asian characters encoded in Unicode to support consistent digital representation across languages, with its specific ideograph reflecting

General Properties

Code Point	U+54E5
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	哥
HTML Hex Encoding	哥
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x93 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding	0x54E5
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000054E5
C/C++/Java Escape	\u54e5

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	ADF4
kCCCII	21363A
kCNS1986	1-5457
kCNS1992	1-5457
kCangjie	MRNR
kCantonese	go1
kCihaiT	274.601
kCowles	1728
kDaeJaweon	0409.250
kDefinition	elder brother
kEACC	21363A
kFanqie	古俄
kFenn	699A
kFennIndex	249.01
kFourCornerCode	1062.1
kGB0	2471
kGB1	2471
kGradeLevel	1
kGSR	0001p
kHangul	가:0N
kHanYu	10624.190
kHanyuPinlu	gē(491) ge(217)
kHanyuPinyin	10624.190:gē
kHKGlyph	0580
kIICore	AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	0409.250
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10624.190
kIRGKangXi	0190.080
kIRG_GSource	G0-3867
kIRG_HSource	HB1-ADF4
kIRG_JSource	J0-5327
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-CDA8
kIRG_KSource	K0-4A28
kIRG_TSource	T1-5457
kIRG_VSource	V1-4F34
kJapanese	カうたうたう
kKoreanName	2015
kTGH	2013:1852
kJapaneseKun	UTAU
kJapaneseOn	KA
kJis0	5107
kKangXi	0190.080
kKarlgren	413
kKorean	KA
kLau	942
kMainlandTelegraph	0766
kMandarin	gē
kMatthews	3363
kMeyerWempe	1204
kMojiJoho	MJ008276
kMorohashi	03641
kNelson	0056
kPhonetic	487 643
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+4378+30.3.7
kRSUnicode	30.7
kSBGY	159.10
kSMSZD2003Index	103.12
kSMSZD2003Readings	gē粵go1
kTaiwanTelegraph	0766
kTang	gɑ
kTGHZ2013	110.020:gē
kTotalStrokes	10
kUnihanCore2020	GHJKMPT
kVietnamese	ca
kXerox	242:312
kXHC1983	0369.010:gē