U+5BFC "导" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+5BFC "导" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that carries the core meaning of "to lead," "to guide," or "to conduct," and is widely used in both modern and classical written Chinese. It is composed of the radical 寸 (cun, meaning "thumb" or "measure") combined with elements suggesting direction or movement, reflecting its sense of steering or showing the way. This character appears in common words such as 导引 (dǎoyǐn, "to guide"), 导航 (dǎoháng, "navigation"), and 导演 (dǎoyǎn, "director" of a film), making it an essential component for expressing concepts of leadership, instruction, and transmission in East Asian languages.

General Properties

Code Point U+5BFC
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 导
HTML Hex Encoding 导
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0xAF 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding 0x5BFC
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00005BFC
C/C++/Java Escape \u5bfc

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

kCCCII 273B44
kCangjie RUDI
kCantonese dou6
kDefinition direct, guide, lead, conduct
kEACC 273B44
kFourCornerCode 7734
kGB0 2128
kHanYu 10504.020
kHanyuPinlu dǎo(1403)
kIICore AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10504.020
kIRGKangXi 0293.331
kIRG_GSource G0-353C
kTGH 2013:567
kKangXi 0293.331
kMainlandTelegraph 1418
kMandarin dǎo
kPhonetic 597 1357
kRSUnicode 41.3
kSMSZD2003Index 173.07
kTGHZ2013 068.030:dǎo
kTotalStrokes 6
kTraditionalVariant "導" U+5C0E CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 0219.020:dǎo