U+5B63 "季" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+5B63 "季" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character, also used in Japanese and Korean, that primarily means "season" or "period of time," such as spring, summer, autumn, or winter, as well as the final month of a season or the end of a period. Its structure combines the radical for "grain" or "crop" with phonetic elements suggesting a connection to the harvest or the cyclical nature of the year. In modern usage, it appears in common words like "四季" meaning the four seasons and "季節" meaning season, and it carries cultural weight in East Asian traditions where seasonal time is closely tied to agriculture, festivals, and poetry. The character dates back to ancient Chinese bronze inscriptions and has maintained its core meaning across centuries of linguistic evolution.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
季 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
季 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xE5 0xAD 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x5B63 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00005B63 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u5b63 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive |
A975 |
| kCCCII |
213A58 |
| kCNS1986 |
1-4C77 |
| kCNS1992 |
1-4C77 |
| kCangjie |
HDND |
| kCantonese |
gwai3 |
| kCihaiT |
400.401 |
| kCowles |
2066 |
| kDaeJaweon |
0547.050 |
| kDefinition |
quarter of year; season; surname |
| kEACC |
213A58 |
| kFanqie |
居悸 |
| kFenn |
512A |
| kFennIndex |
34.12 |
| kFourCornerCode |
2040.7 |
| kGB0 |
2830 |
| kGB1 |
2830 |
| kGradeLevel |
2 |
| kGSR |
0538a |
| kHangul |
계:0E |
| kHanYu |
21013.050 |
| kHanyuPinlu |
jì(238) |
| kHanyuPinyin |
21013.050:jì |
| kHKGlyph |
0981 |
| kIICore |
AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon |
0547.050 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian |
21013.050 |
| kIRGKangXi |
0279.030 |
| kIRG_GSource |
G0-3C3E |
| kIRG_HSource |
HB1-A975 |
| kIRG_JSource |
J0-3528 |
| kIRG_KPSource |
KP0-D3BC |
| kIRG_KSource |
K0-4C79 |
| kIRG_TSource |
T1-4C77 |
| kIRG_VSource |
V1-5243 |
| kJapanese |
キ すえ |
| kJoyoKanji |
2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja |
2007 |
| kTGH |
2013:1132 |
| kJapaneseKun |
SUE TOKI |
| kJapaneseOn |
KI |
| kJis0 |
2108 |
| kKangXi |
0279.030 |
| kKorean |
KYEY |
| kLau |
1033 |
| kMainlandTelegraph |
1323 |
| kMandarin |
jì |
| kMatthews |
435 |
| kMeyerWempe |
1374 |
| kMojiJoho |
MJ010070 |
| kMorohashi |
06965 |
| kNelson |
3266 |
| kPhonetic |
715 1453 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 |
C+1602+39.3.5 C+1602+115.5.3 |
| kRSUnicode |
39.5 |
| kSBGY |
354.41 |
| kSMSZD2003Index |
164.04 483.11 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings |
jì粵gwai3 |
| kSpoofingVariant |
U+2EC5C |
| kTaiwanTelegraph |
1323 |
| kTang |
gì |
| kTGHZ2013 |
158.060:jì |
| kTotalStrokes |
8 |
| kUnihanCore2020 |
GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese |
quí |
| kXerox |
246:061 |
| kXHC1983 |
0534.070:jì |