U+56DA "囚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

囚

U+56DA "囚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that visually depicts a person enclosed within a boundary, representing the concept of a prisoner or to imprison, as its radical composition combines the enclosure radical "囗" (wei, meaning to surround or a wall) with "人" (ren, for person) inside it. This character is used in both Simplified and Traditional Chinese writing systems, appearing in various East Asian languages including Japanese and Korean, where it carries similar meanings related to confinement, captivity, or restriction. Its structure serves as a direct pictographic metaphor, illustrating the idea of being trapped or incarcerated, and it is commonly found in contexts discussing legal punishment, criminal justice, or metaphorical constraint.

General Properties

Code Point	U+56DA
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	囚
HTML Hex Encoding	囚
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x9B 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding	0x56DA
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000056DA
C/C++/Java Escape	\u56da

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	A57D
kCCCII	213766
kCNS1986	1-463F
kCNS1992	1-463F
kCangjie	WO
kCantonese	cau4
kCihaiT	294.601
kCowles	479 4729
kDaeJaweon	0439.200
kDefinition	prisoner, convict; confine
kEACC	213766
kFanqie	似尤
kFenn	429D
kFennIndex	87.03
kFourCornerCode	6080.0
kGB0	3984
kGB1	3984
kGradeLevel	5
kGSR	1094a
kHangul	수:0E
kHanYu	10710.130
kHanyuPinyin	10710.130:qiú
kHKGlyph	0719
kIICore	AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	0439.200
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10710.130
kIRGKangXi	0216.200
kIRG_GSource	G0-4774
kIRG_HSource	HB1-A57D
kIRG_JSource	J0-3C7C
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-E3DD
kIRG_KSource	K0-6176
kIRG_TSource	T1-463F
kIRG_VSource	V1-503A
kJapanese	シュウジュとらえる
kJoyoKanji	2010
kKoreanEducationHanja	2007
kTGH	2013:261
kJapaneseKun	TORAERU
kJapaneseOn	SHUU
kJis0	2892
kKangXi	0216.200
kKorean	SWU
kLau	235
kMainlandTelegraph	0933
kMandarin	qiú
kMatthews	1234
kMeyerWempe	182a 3302
kMojiJoho	MJ008815
kMorohashi	04680
kNelson	1024
kPhonetic	93
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+2344+9.2.3 C+2344+31.3.2
kRSUnicode	31.2
kSBGY	209.29
kSMSZD2003Index	123.10 20.08
kSMSZD2003Readings	qiú粵cau4
kTaiwanTelegraph	0933
kTang	zhiou
kTGHZ2013	306.030:qiú
kTotalStrokes	5
kUnihanCore2020	GHJKMPT
kVietnamese	tù
kXerox	260:057
kXHC1983	0941.070:qiú