U+5DBC "嶼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

嶼

U+5DBC "嶼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character historically used in classical and modern written language to denote a small island or islet, often appearing in geographical names and literary contexts. Its composition features the radical for mountain (山) combined with a phonetic component, reflecting its meaning of a landform surrounded by water. This character is most famously associated with the island of Taiwan, known in Mandarin as "Táiwān" (臺灣), where "嶼" refers to the concept of an island, though it has broader usage in formal and poetic descriptions of coastal landscapes. Represented in the CJK Unified Ideographs block, it is encoded for digital text in various East Asian scripts, including traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, where it retains similar meanings and readings.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5DBC
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	嶼
HTML Hex Encoding	嶼
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0xB6 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5DBC
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005DBC
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5dbc

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Ideographic
East Asian Width	Wide
Script	Han
Script Extensions	Han
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	OLetter
Ideographic	Yes
Unified Ideograph	Yes

Unihan Properties

kBigFive	C0AC
kCCCII	213C2D
kCNS1986	1-7355
kCNS1992	1-7355
kCangjie	UHXC
kCantonese	zeoi6
kCihaiT	461.401
kCowles	3727
kDefinition	island; (Cant.) 大嶼山 daai6jyu4saan1 Lantau Island
kEACC	213C2D
kFanqie	徐吕
kFourCornerCode	2778.1
kGB1	5176
kGradeLevel	6
kHangul	서:0N
kHanYu	10800.210
kHanyuPinlu	yǔ(30)
kHanyuPinyin	10800.210:yǔ,xù
kHKGlyph	1124
kIICore	ATJHKMP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10800.210
kIRGKangXi	0321.250
kIRG_GSource	G1-536C
kIRG_HSource	HB1-C0AC
kIRG_JSource	J0-5659
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-E1E3
kIRG_KSource	K0-5F6C
kIRG_TSource	T1-7355
kJapanese	ショジョしま
kKoreanName	2015
kJapaneseKun	SHIMA
kJapaneseOn	SHO
kJis0	5457
kKangXi	0321.250
kKorean	SE
kLau	1598
kMandarin	yǔ
kMatthews	2853
kMeyerWempe	2874
kMojiJoho	MJ010723
kMorohashi	08561
kNelson	1438
kPhonetic	1616
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+4710+46.3.13
kRSUnicode	46.14
kSBGY	259.26
kSimplifiedVariant	"屿" U+5C7F CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	188.13
kSMSZD2003Readings	yǔ,xù粵zeoi6 yǔ粵jyu4
kTaiwanTelegraph	1546
kTotalStrokes	16
kUnihanCore2020	HJKMPT
kXerox	252:066
kXHC1983	1413.021:yǔ