U+5C9B "岛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
岛
U+5C9B "岛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that also appears in Japanese kanji and Korean hanja, meaning "island." It is a logogram composed of a semantic component related to birds or a cliff side combined with a phonetic element, and in its simplified modern form, the character evokes the image of a bird resting on a peak or a piece of land surrounded by water. This character is commonly used in words such as "岛屿" (dǎo yǔ) meaning "islands" in Chinese, and it appears in place names like Taiwan (台湾) and in Japanese names such as "Shima" or "Tō." Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures consistent digital representation across platforms and languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5C9B |
| 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 | 岛 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 岛 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xB2 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5C9B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005C9B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5c9b |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 273B79 |
| kCangjie | PYSU |
| kCantonese | dou2 |
| kDefinition | island |
| kEACC | 273B79 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2772 |
| kGB0 | 2126 |
| kHanYu | 10764.150 |
| kHanyuPinlu | dǎo(190) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10764.150 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0308.331 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-353A |
| kTGH | 2013:820 |
| kKangXi | 0308.331 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 1497 |
| kMandarin | dǎo |
| kRSUnicode | 46.4 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 182.12 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 068.040:dǎo |
| kTotalStrokes | 7 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "島" U+5CF6 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0218.060:dǎo |