U+5DE5 "工" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
工
U+5DE5 "工" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "work," "labor," or "skill," and is often used to denote a worker, a craftsman, or the concept of engineering and construction. It is a highly common and ancient logogram, originally depicting a carpenter's square or a tool, symbolizing craftsmanship and precision. In modern usage, it appears as a radical or component in many other characters related to tasks, professions, and industrial activities, and it is frequently seen in compound words such as 工作 (gōngzuò, meaning "work") and 工人 (gōngrén, meaning "worker"). Pronounced "gōng" in Mandarin Chinese, it holds fundamental importance in both written and spoken forms across East Asian languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5DE5 |
| 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 | 工 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 工 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xB7 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5DE5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005DE5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5de5 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A475 |
| kCCCII | 213C37 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4456 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4456 |
| kCangjie | MLM |
| kCantonese | gung1 |
| kCihaiT | 463.202 |
| kCowles | 1877 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0626.020 |
| kDefinition | labor, work; worker, laborer |
| kEACC | 213C37 |
| kFanqie | 古紅 |
| kFenn | 8A |
| kFennIndex | 276.04 |
| kFourCornerCode | 1010.0 |
| kGB0 | 2504 |
| kGB1 | 2504 |
| kGradeLevel | 1 |
| kGSR | 1172a |
| kHangul | 공:0E |
| kHanYu | 10410.060 |
| kHanyuPinlu | gōng(5185) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10410.060:gōng |
| kHDZRadBreak | ⼯[U+2F2F]:10410.060 |
| kHKGlyph | 1134 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0626.020 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10410.060 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0325.010 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3924 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A475 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3929 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-D0BB |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-4D6F |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4456 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-535B |
| kJapanese | コウ ク たくみ つかさ わざ |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:26 |
| kJapaneseKun | TAKUMI WAZA TSUKASA |
| kJapaneseOn | KOU KU |
| kJis0 | 2509 |
| kKangXi | 0325.010 |
| kKarlgren | 469 |
| kKorean | KONG |
| kLau | 998 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 1562 |
| kMandarin | gōng |
| kMatthews | 3697 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1331 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ010773 |
| kMorohashi | 08714 |
| kNelson | 0003 1451 |
| kPhonetic | 684 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1979+48.3.0 V+13763+48.3.0 |
| kRSUnicode | 48.0 |
| kSBGY | 029.02 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 189.12 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | gōng粵gung1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 1562 |
| kTang | gung |
| kTGHZ2013 | 113.130:gōng |
| kTotalStrokes | 3 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | công |
| kXerox | 241:270 |
| kXHC1983 | 0378.120:gōng |