U+5C38 "尸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
尸
U+5C38 "尸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a significant East Asian character that originally depicts a corpse or a person lying down, and it serves as a radical in the Chinese Kangxi system, where it is the 44th radical. In modern usage, this character primarily means "corpse" or "dead body" in Chinese and Japanese, and it is also a component in other characters, often contributing meanings related to the body, posture, or death. Despite its morbid literal sense, it appears in various common compounds, such as 尸体 (shītǐ) for "corpse" in Chinese or 尸骸 (shigai) in Japanese, and it is distinct from the similar-looking but unrelated character 户 meaning "door" or "household."
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5C38 |
| 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 | 尸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 尸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xB0 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5C38 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005C38 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5c38 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A472 |
| kCCCII | 213B4D |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4453 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4453 |
| kCangjie | S |
| kCantonese | si1 |
| kCihaiT | 445.304 |
| kCowles | 3901 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0595.070 |
| kDefinition | corpse; to impersonate the dead; to preside; Kangxi radical 44 |
| kEACC | 213B4D |
| kFanqie | 式之 |
| kFenn | 724E |
| kFennIndex | 450.02 |
| kFourCornerCode | 7720.7 |
| kGB0 | 4212 |
| kGB1 | 4212 |
| kGSR | 0561a |
| kHangul | 시:0N |
| kHanYu | 20963.140 |
| kHanyuPinlu | shī(14) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 20963.140:shī |
| kHDZRadBreak | ⼫[U+2F2B]:20963.140 |
| kHKGlyph | 1063 |
| kIICore | AGTHKP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0595.070 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 20963.140 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0299.260 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4A2C |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A472 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-5579 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E4FE |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6339 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4453 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-532A |
| kJapanese | シ かたしろ しかばね しかばねかんむり |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:59 |
| kJapaneseKun | SHIKABANE KATASHIRO |
| kJapaneseOn | SHI |
| kJis0 | 5389 |
| kKangXi | 0299.260 |
| kKorean | SI |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 1437 |
| kMandarin | shī |
| kMatthews | 5756 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2683 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ010328 |
| kMorohashi | 07630 |
| kNelson | 1376 |
| kPhonetic | 1176 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+4648+44.3.0 |
| kRSUnicode | 44.0 |
| kSBGY | 054.16 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+5C4D<kMeyerWempe |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "尸" U+5C38 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 177.09 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | shī粵si1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 1437 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 333.110:shī |
| kTotalStrokes | 3 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "尸" U+5C38 CJK Unified Ideograph-# "屍" U+5C4D CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | thây |
| kXerox | 265:325 |
| kXHC1983 | 1035.040:shī |