U+5B70 "孰" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
孰
U+5B70 "孰" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that traditionally means "who" or "which," often used in classical and literary contexts to pose questions or express uncertainty. It is composed of the radical 子 (child) combined with additional phonetic and semantic components, reflecting its origins in ancient Chinese script. In modern usage, "孰" appears less frequently in everyday conversation but remains common in formal writing, idioms, and classical texts, where it functions as an interrogative pronoun or a marker of rhetorical inquiry. This character is encoded in the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) Unified Ideographs block of Unicode, supporting its use in digital text across East Asian languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5B70 |
| 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 | 孰 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 孰 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xAD 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5B70 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005B70 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5b70 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B145 |
| kCCCII | 213A5C |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5969 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5969 |
| kCangjie | YDKNI |
| kCantonese | suk6 |
| kCihaiT | 403.103 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0549.030 |
| kDefinition | who? which? what? which one? |
| kEACC | 213A5C |
| kFanqie | 殊六 |
| kFenn | 744F |
| kFennIndex | 462.01 |
| kFourCornerCode | 0541.7 |
| kGB0 | 4275 |
| kGB1 | 4275 |
| kGSR | 1026a |
| kHangul | 숙:0E |
| kHanYu | 21016.140 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 21016.140:shú |
| kHKGlyph | 0984 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0549.030 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21016.140 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0280.050 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4A6B |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B145 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-5559 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E4BC |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6255 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5969 |
| kJapanese | シュク ジュク いずれ たれ |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:4935 |
| kJapaneseKun | TARE IZURE |
| kJapaneseOn | JUKU |
| kJis0 | 5357 |
| kKangXi | 0280.050 |
| kKorean | SWUK |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 1328 |
| kMandarin | shú |
| kMatthews | 5893 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2787b |
| kMojiJoho | MJ010084 MJ010084:E0101 MJ057322:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 06995 06995:E0101 |
| kNelson | 0316 |
| kPhonetic | 746 1263 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+4616+39.3.8 |
| kRSUnicode | 39.8 |
| kSBGY | 455.34 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 165.01 16.04 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | shú粵suk6 |
| kSpecializedSemanticVariant | U+587E<kMeyerWempe |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 1328 |
| kTang | *zhiuk zhiuk |
| kTGHZ2013 | 341.060:shú |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kXerox | 271:245 |
| kXHC1983 | 1065.010:shú |