U+57E0 "埠" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+57E0 "埠" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily meaning "wharf," "port," "pier," or "dock," and by extension "a commercial town" or "market city," especially one situated along a river or coast where goods are traded and ships load or unload. It is composed of the radical "土" (earth, ground) on the left, suggesting a place or location, and the phonetic component "阜" (mound, abundant) on the right, which hints at prosperity or an elevated area. This character is most commonly used in modern Chinese to form words such as "口岸" (port) and "商埠" (trading port), and it appears frequently in place names like "蚌埠" (Bengbu, a city in Anhui Province). Beyond its literal and geographic applications, "埠" also conveys a sense of commercial activity and connection, reflecting the historical and economic importance of harbors and market towns in East Asian cultures.

General Properties

Code Point	U+57E0
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	埠
HTML Hex Encoding	埠
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x9F 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding	0x57E0
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000057E0
C/C++/Java Escape	\u57e0

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

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kDefinition	port city
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kFanqie	薄故
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kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10454.060
kIRGKangXi	0230.220
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kIRG_HSource	HB1-B0F0
kIRG_JSource	J0-4956
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-DEE6
kIRG_KSource	K0-5C7C
kIRG_TSource	T1-5955
kJapanese	フ ホ はとば
kKoreanName	2015
kTGH	2013:2175
kJapaneseKun	TSUKA HATOBA
kJapaneseOn	FU
kJis0	4154
kKangXi	0230.220
kKarlgren	40
kKorean	PWU
kMainlandTelegraph	1009
kMandarin	bù
kMatthews	5377
kMeyerWempe	504
kMojiJoho	MJ009081
kMorohashi	05161
kNelson	1089
kPhonetic	364
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+3528+32.3.8
kRSUnicode	32.8
kSMSZD2003Index	133.11 749.05
kSMSZD2003Readings	bù粵bou6 bù粵fau6
kTaiwanTelegraph	1009
kTGHZ2013	029.110:bù
kTotalStrokes	11
kUnihanCore2020	GHJKMPT
kXerox	251:154
kXHC1983	0087.090:bù