U+56FD "国" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

国

U+56FD "国" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that means "country," "nation," or "state." It is a simplified form of the traditional character "國," which historically depicted a territory (represented by the enclosure radical 囗) containing a weapon or symbol of authority (戈), signifying a defended or governed region. In modern usage, "国" is a common and essential character in the Chinese writing system, appearing in words like 中国 (China) and 国家 (nation). It is encoded in the CJK Unified Ideographs block of Unicode, representing the East Asian script tradition shared by Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages, where it carries similar meanings and is frequently used in proper names and political or cultural contexts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+56FD
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	国
HTML Hex Encoding	国
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x9B 0xBD
UTF-16 Encoding	0x56FD
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000056FD
C/C++/Java Escape	\u56fd

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

kCNS1986	E-277B
kCNS1992	3-277B
kCangjie	WMGI
kCantonese	gwok3
kDaeJaweon	0446.070
kDefinition	nation, country, nation-state
kEACC	4B376F
kFourCornerCode	6010.3
kGB0	2590
kHangul	국:N
kHanYu	10716.070
kHanyuPinlu	guó(6416)
kIICore	AGJ
kIRGDaeJaweon	0446.070
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10716.070
kIRGKangXi	0218.041
kIRG_GSource	G0-397A
kIRG_HSource	H-98C7
kIRG_JSource	J0-3971
kIRG_KSource	K2-2955
kIRG_TSource	T3-277B
kJapanese	コクくに
kJoyoKanji	2010
kKoreanName	2015
kTGH	2013:1081
kJapaneseKun	KUNI
kJapaneseOn	KOKU
kJis0	2581
kKangXi	0218.041
kKorean	KWUK
kMainlandTelegraph	0948
kMandarin	guó
kMojiJoho	MJ008851
kMorohashi	04752
kNelson	1037
kPhonetic	748 1416
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+2051+31.3.5 C+2051+96.5.3
kRSUnicode	31.5
kSMSZD2003Index	125.01
kTGHZ2013	126.080:guó
kTotalStrokes	8
kTraditionalVariant	"國" U+570B CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	GHJ
kXHC1983	0423.010:guó