U+5CE0 "峠" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
峠
U+5CE0 "峠" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a complex East Asian character primarily used in Japanese, where it represents a mountain pass or a key geographical point along a road. Its composition combines the radical for mountain with phonetic elements that suggest a crossing or high place, and it is often found in place names and historical texts. In Chinese, the character is considered rare or nonstandard, as it was originally a Japanese creation from the Kanji system. Overall, this character serves as a visual and semantic link to the concept of traversing a mountainous terrain.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5CE0 |
| 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 | 峠 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 峠 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xB3 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5CE0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005CE0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5ce0 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 222426 |
| kCangjie | UYMY |
| kCantonese | kaa1 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0611.120 |
| kDefinition | mountain pass; crisis, climax |
| kEACC | 222426 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2173.1 |
| kHangul | 상:0N |
| kHanYu | 10770.081 |
| kIICore | AJKP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0611.120 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10770.081 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0311.061 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-373C |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-463D |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E1CB |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5F47 |
| kJapanese | とうげ |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | TOUGE |
| kJis0 | 3829 |
| kKangXi | 0311.061 |
| kKorean | SANG |
| kMandarin | qiǎ |
| kMojiJoho | MJ010497 |
| kMorohashi | 08068 |
| kNelson | 1416 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+3221+46.3.6 |
| kRSUnicode | 46.6 |
| kTotalStrokes | 9 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | JKP |