U+5DE8 "巨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
巨
U+5DE8 "巨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character pronounced jù in Mandarin, meaning "huge," "enormous," "very large," or "giant," and it is commonly used in compound words like 巨大 (jùdà, meaning massive) and 巨人 (jùrén, meaning giant person). This ideograph is composed of a single radical, 工 (work), with the addition of a horizontal stroke above it, which visually suggests a large object or scope, and it appears in both Simplified and Traditional Chinese writing systems. Historically, it derives from ancient oracle bone script, where it depicted a large, rectangular measuring tool, reinforcing its association with size and magnitude.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5DE8 |
| 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 | 巨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 巨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xB7 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5DE8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005DE8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5de8 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A5A8 |
| kCCCII | 213C38 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4648 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4648 |
| kCangjie | SS |
| kCantonese | geoi6 |
| kCihaiT | 465.601 |
| kCowles | 1863 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0628.020 |
| kDefinition | large, great, enormous; chief |
| kEACC | 213C38 |
| kFanqie | 其吕 |
| kFenn | 641F |
| kFennIndex | 114.09 |
| kFourCornerCode | 7171.7 |
| kGB0 | 3062 |
| kGB1 | 3062 |
| kGradeLevel | 3 |
| kGSR | 0095a |
| kHangul | 거:0E |
| kHanYu | 10082.010 |
| kHanyuPinlu | jù(332) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10082.010:jù,qú |
| kHKGlyph | 1135 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0628.020 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10082.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0325.120 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3E5E |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A5A8 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3570 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-CEC3 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-4B5D |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4648 |
| kJapanese | キョ ゴ コ おおきい |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:101 |
| kJapaneseKun | OOKII |
| kJapaneseOn | KYO |
| kJis0 | 2180 |
| kKangXi | 0325.120 |
| kKarlgren | 482 |
| kKorean | KE |
| kLau | 984 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 1565 |
| kMandarin | jù |
| kMatthews | 1544 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1311d |
| kMojiJoho | MJ010777 MJ010777:E0102 MJ010776:E0103 |
| kMorohashi | 08722:E0103 |
| kNelson | 0019 0758 1452 |
| kPhonetic | 676 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1674+48.3.2 V+13714+48.3.2 |
| kRSUnicode | 48.2 |
| kSBGY | 258.05 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 190.03 72.10 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | jù粵geoi6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 1565 |
| kTang | ghiǔ |
| kTGHZ2013 | 185.090:jù |
| kTotalStrokes | 4 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kXerox | 247:130 |
| kXHC1983 | 0614.010:jù |