U+5DE3 "巣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
巣
U+5DE3 "巣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that also appears in Japanese and Korean, primarily meaning "nest," "lair," or "hive." In Japanese, it is a common character used in words like "巣箱" (subako, meaning nest box) and "巣窟" (sōkutsu, meaning den or haunt), and it can also refer to a breeding ground or a place of origin. Its form is a variant of the traditional Chinese character "巢," which depicts a bird's nest in a tree, and it is encoded in the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideographs block for consistent digital representation across East Asian languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5DE3 |
| 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 | 巣 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 巣 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xB7 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5DE3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005DE3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5de3 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 2D3C36 |
| kCNS1986 | E-3557 |
| kCNS1992 | 3-3557 |
| kCangjie | FWD |
| kCantonese | caau4 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0919.230 |
| kDefinition | nest, living quarter in tree |
| kEACC | 2D3C36 |
| kFourCornerCode | 3290.4 9090.4 |
| kHanYu | 21221.010 |
| kIICore | AJ |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0919.230 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21221.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0531.131 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-3770 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4163 |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-3557 |
| kJapanese | ソウ す すくう |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kJapaneseKun | SU SUKUU |
| kJapaneseOn | SOU |
| kJis0 | 3367 |
| kKangXi | 0531.131 |
| kMandarin | cháo |
| kMojiJoho | MJ010771 |
| kMorohashi | 08696' |
| kNelson | 0141 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2789+42.3.8 C+2789+47.3.8 |
| kRSUnicode | 47.8 |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | J |