U+56DE "回" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
回
U+56DE "回" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a fundamental Chinese character that means "to return," "to revolve," "to reply," or "a time" as a measure word for instances of an action, and it visually depicts an enclosure or a circling motion. Its traditional meaning is closely tied to the concept of going back or rotating, and it appears in many common compounds, such as 回家 meaning "to go home" or 回答 meaning "to answer." The character is also significant in Chinese philosophy as a symbol of cyclical change and is frequently used in both classical and modern texts, representing a core concept of return and repetition in East Asian languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+56DE |
| 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 | 回 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 回 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x9B 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x56DE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000056DE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u56de |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A65E |
| kCCCII | 213768 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-475F |
| kCNS1992 | 1-475F |
| kCangjie | WR |
| kCantonese | wui4 |
| kCihaiT | 300.202 |
| kCowles | 3135 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0422.040 |
| kDefinition | return, turn around; a time |
| kEACC | 213768 |
| kFanqie | 戶恢 |
| kFenn | 765A |
| kFennIndex | 208.02 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6060.0 |
| kGB0 | 2756 |
| kGB1 | 2756 |
| kGradeLevel | 1 |
| kGSR | 0542a |
| kHangul | 회:0E |
| kHanYu | 10712.020 |
| kHanyuPinlu | huí(2949) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10712.020:huí |
| kHKGlyph | 0721 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0422.040 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10712.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0216.260 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3B58 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A65E |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3273 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F5DD |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-7C5E |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-475F |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-503C |
| kJapanese | カイ エ ウイ まわる まわす かえる たがう |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:438 |
| kJapaneseKun | MAWASU MAWARU KAERU |
| kJapaneseOn | KAI E |
| kJis0 | 1883 |
| kKangXi | 0216.260 |
| kKarlgren | 108 |
| kKorean | HOY |
| kLau | 3286 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0932 |
| kMandarin | huí |
| kMatthews | 2309 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2176 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008820 |
| kMorohashi | 04690 |
| kNelson | 1028 |
| kPhonetic | 1464 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1395+30.3.3 C+1395+31.3.3 |
| kRSUnicode | 31.3 |
| kSBGY | 096.27 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+56D8<kLau,kMatthews,kMeyerWempe U+5EFB<kMeyerWempe U+56EC<kLau,kMatthews |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "回" U+56DE CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 123.13 92.03 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | huí粵wui4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0932 |
| kTang | *huəi |
| kTGHZ2013 | 148.020,148.030:huí |
| kTotalStrokes | 6 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "回" U+56DE CJK Unified Ideograph-# "迴" U+8FF4 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | hồi |
| kXerox | 241:277 |
| kXHC1983 | 0500.060:huí |