U+5BE4 "寤" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
寤
U+5BE4 "寤" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character historically used in Classical Chinese and Japanese Kanji, meaning "to awaken" or "to realize," often conveying the idea of waking from sleep or attaining enlightenment. It is composed of the radical for "roof" or "house" (宀) combined with phonetic and semantic components, and appears in ancient texts such as the "Shijing" (Book of Songs), where it describes both literal and metaphorical awakening. In modern usage, it is rare but can be found in literary or scholarly contexts, and it is classified under the Kangxi radical 40 (宀) with 12 additional strokes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5BE4 |
| 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 | 寤 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 寤 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xAF 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5BE4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005BE4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5be4 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B9ED |
| kCCCII | 213B2F |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6855 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6855 |
| kCangjie | JVMR |
| kCantonese | ng6 |
| kCihaiT | 427.502 |
| kCowles | 2972 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0575.040 |
| kDefinition | few, scarce; empty, deserted |
| kEACC | 213B2F |
| kFanqie | 五故 |
| kFenn | 763I |
| kFennIndex | 610.09 |
| kFourCornerCode | 3026.1 |
| kGB0 | 6927 |
| kGB1 | 6927 |
| kGSR | 0058n |
| kHangul | 오:0N |
| kHanYu | 20950.030 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 20950.030:wù |
| kHKGlyph | 1036 |
| kIICore | AGTHKP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0575.040 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 20950.030 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0291.010 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-653B |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B9ED |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-5568 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F9D6 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6775 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6855 |
| kJapanese | ゴ さめる |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:5816 |
| kJapaneseKun | SAMERU |
| kJapaneseOn | GO |
| kJis0 | 5372 |
| kKangXi | 0291.010 |
| kKorean | O |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 1393 |
| kMandarin | wù |
| kMatthews | 7192 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1996a |
| kMojiJoho | MJ010225 MJ010225:E0101 MJ010226:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 07291 07291:E0101 |
| kNelson | 1332 |
| kPhonetic | 947 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+4631+40.3.11 |
| kRSUnicode | 40.11 |
| kSBGY | 368.42 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 171.15 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | wù粵ng6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 1393 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 390.160:wù |
| kTotalStrokes | 14 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kXerox | 274:175 |
| kXHC1983 | 1223.090:wù |