U+5BFC "导" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
导
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
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 |