U+57C3 "埃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
埃
U+57C3 "埃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "dust" or "dirt" and is also used as a phonetic component in transliterations, such as in the name "Egypt" (埃及, Āijí). Composed of the radical 土 (earth, soil) on the left and 𠂉 on the right, it carries the connotation of fine particles or grit, and its frequency in modern Chinese is moderate, appearing in everyday vocabulary like 尘埃 (chén'āi, dust) as well as in historical and geographical contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+57C3 |
| 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 | 埃 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 埃 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x9F 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x57C3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000057C3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u57c3 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | AE4A |
| kCCCII | 213839 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-546C |
| kCNS1992 | 1-546C |
| kCangjie | GIOK |
| kCantonese | oi1 |
| kCihaiT | 319.502 |
| kCowles | 3096 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0465.090 |
| kDefinition | fine dust, dirt |
| kEACC | 213839 |
| kFanqie | 烏開 |
| kFenn | 477D |
| kFennIndex | 2.01 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4313.4 |
| kGB0 | 1603 |
| kGB1 | 1603 |
| kGradeLevel | 5 |
| kGSR | 0938b |
| kHangul | 애:0N |
| kHanYu | 10447.150 |
| kHanyuPinlu | āi(33) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10447.150:āi,zhì |
| kHKGlyph | 0767 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0465.090 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10447.150 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0229.190 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3023 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-AE4A |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-543C |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-FCEF |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-646F |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-546C |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-5066 |
| kJapanese | アイ チ ジ ちり ほこり |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:1814 |
| kJapaneseKun | CHIRI HOKORI |
| kJapaneseOn | AI |
| kJis0 | 5228 |
| kKangXi | 0229.190 |
| kKarlgren | 183 |
| kKorean | AY |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 1002 |
| kMandarin | āi |
| kMatthews | 5 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2142 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ009050 |
| kMorohashi | 05107 |
| kNelson | 1081 |
| kPhonetic | 1549A |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+4493+32.3.7 |
| kRSUnicode | 32.7 |
| kSBGY | 099.06 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 132.21 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | āi粵oi1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 1002 |
| kTang | *qəi |
| kTGHZ2013 | 001.120:āi |
| kTotalStrokes | 10 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | ai |
| kXerox | 255:162 |
| kXHC1983 | 0003.030:āi |