U+5757 "块" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
块
U+5757 "块" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "piece," "lump," "chunk," or "block" and is commonly used as a measure word for pieces of land, cloth, money, or other solid objects. It also appears in compounds such as "一块" meaning "one piece" or "together," and in words like "块头" for physical size or build. In modern usage, it is frequently employed to refer to Chinese yuan in colloquial speech, as in "五千块" for "five thousand yuan," and is widely used in both everyday language and formal writing across East Asian languages like Chinese and Japanese.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5757 |
| 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 | 块 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 块 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x9D 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5757 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005757 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5757 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 217456 |
| kCNS1986 | E-2538 |
| kCNS1992 | 3-2538 |
| kCangjie | GDK |
| kCantonese | faai3 |
| kCihaiT | 317.603 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0461.110 |
| kDefinition | piece, lump; dollar |
| kEACC | 273856 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4518 |
| kGB0 | 3173 |
| kHanYu | 10428.050 |
| kHanyuPinlu | kuài(929) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10428.050:kuài,yué |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0461.110 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10428.050 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0226.101 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3F69 |
| kIRG_HSource | H-9AC2 |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-008952 |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-2538 |
| kJapanese | カイ |
| kTGH | 2013:652 |
| kJapaneseOn | KAI |
| kKangXi | 0226.101 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 1040 |
| kMandarin | kuài |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008952 |
| kMorohashi | 04948 |
| kPhonetic | 667 711 |
| kRSUnicode | 32.4 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "块" U+5757 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 129.06 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 200.150:kuài |
| kTotalStrokes | 7 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "块" U+5757 CJK Unified Ideograph-# "塊" U+584A CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GH |
| kXHC1983 | 0657.070:kuài |