U+5D57 "嵗" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
嵗
U+5D57 "嵗" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is an ancient or variant form of the character 歲, which primarily means "year" or "age" in East Asian languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. This particular glyph, composed of the "mountain" radical (山) atop a complex lower component, is less common in modern standard writing but appears in historical texts, calligraphy, and stone carvings, where it often carries the same semantic and phonetic value as its more conventional counterpart. It belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) Unified Ideographs block in the Unicode standard, encoding a shared character heritage across these languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5D57 |
| 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 | 嵗 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 嵗 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xB5 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5D57 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005D57 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5d57 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 222476 |
| kCNS1986 | E-3B31 |
| kCNS1992 | 3-3B31 |
| kCangjie | UIHH |
| kCantonese | seoi3 |
| kCihaiT | 460.306 |
| kCowles | 3723 |
| kDefinition | year; age; harvest |
| kEACC | 222476 |
| kHanYu | 10785.110 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10785.110 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0316.381 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-374F |
| kIRG_HSource | H-A0A1 |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-010619 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-3F9E |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-3B31 |
| kJapanese | セイ |
| kJapaneseOn | SEI |
| kKangXi | 0316.381 |
| kMandarin | suì |
| kMojiJoho | MJ010619 |
| kMorohashi | 08319 |
| kPhonetic | 1254 |
| kRSUnicode | 46.9 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+6B72 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 186.23 |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | H |
| kXHC1983 | 1101.031:suì |