U+5DDE "州" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
州
U+5DDE "州" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a logogram used in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) languages, where it primarily denotes an administrative division such as a province, state, or prefecture, historically referring to a territorial unit in ancient China. Its visual form, composed of three vertical strokes with surrounding dots or lines, is thought to represent a river or land divided into sections, reflecting its semantic roots in geography and governance. In modern usage, it appears in place names like Guangzhou or in words for "continent" (e.g., 亚洲 for Asia) and is a common component in compound terms across East Asian scripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5DDE |
| 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 | 州 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 州 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xB7 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5DDE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005DDE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5dde |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A67B |
| kCCCII | 213C35 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-477C |
| kCNS1992 | 1-477C |
| kCangjie | ILIL |
| kCantonese | zau1 |
| kCihaiT | 462.302 |
| kCowles | 159 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0624.090 |
| kDefinition | administrative division, state |
| kEACC | 213C35 |
| kFanqie | 職流 |
| kFenn | 426C |
| kFennIndex | 89.13 |
| kFourCornerCode | 3200.0 |
| kGB0 | 5461 |
| kGB1 | 5461 |
| kGSR | 1086a |
| kHangul | 주:0E |
| kHanYu | 10046.030 |
| kHanyuPinlu | zhōu(30) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10046.030:zhōu |
| kHKGlyph | 1132 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0624.090 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10046.030 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0324.010 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-565D |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A67B |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3D23 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E9E5 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-7136 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-477C |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-5358 |
| kJapanese | シュウ ス す しま |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:535 |
| kJapaneseKun | SU SHIMA |
| kJapaneseOn | SHUU SU |
| kJis0 | 2903 |
| kKangXi | 0324.010 |
| kKorean | CWU |
| kLau | 1354 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 1558 |
| kMandarin | zhōu |
| kMatthews | 1289 |
| kMeyerWempe | 173 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ010764 |
| kMorohashi | 08678 |
| kNelson | 0099 |
| kPhonetic | 78 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2349+47.3.3 |
| kRSUnicode | 47.3 |
| kSBGY | 206.15 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 189.06 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | zhōu粵zau1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 1558 |
| kTang | *jiou |
| kTGHZ2013 | 481.110:zhōu |
| kTotalStrokes | 6 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | châu |
| kXerox | 243:363 |
| kXHC1983 | 1503.010:zhōu |