U+5E1A "帚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
帚
U+5E1A "帚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents a broom or a brush, and it is commonly used in East Asian languages, including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. In Chinese, "帚" is often associated with the compound term "扫帚" meaning broom, and it appears in various cultural contexts, such as the idiom "敝帚自珍" which describes treasuring something of little value because it is one's own. The character is composed of two parts, with the radical "巾" indicating cloth and the phonetic component suggesting its pronunciation, and it has a long history in written Chinese, appearing in classical texts and modern usage alike.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5E1A |
| 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 | 帚 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 帚 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xB8 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5E1A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005E1A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5e1a |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A9AA |
| kCCCII | 213C49 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4D2C |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4D2C |
| kCangjie | SMBLB |
| kCantonese | zau2 |
| kCihaiT | 474.503 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0635.250 |
| kDefinition | broom, broomstick |
| kEACC | 213C49 |
| kFanqie | 之九 |
| kFenn | 674E |
| kFennIndex | 90.10 431.03 |
| kFourCornerCode | 1722.7 |
| kGB0 | 5467 |
| kGB1 | 5467 |
| kGradeLevel | 4 |
| kGSR | 1087a |
| kHangul | 추:1N |
| kHanYu | 10735.100 |
| kHanyuPinlu | zhou(13) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10735.100:zhǒu |
| kHKGlyph | 1152 |
| kIICore | AGTJHM |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0635.250 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10735.100 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0330.060 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5663 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A9AA |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-5664 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-4063 |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-703E |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4D2C |
| kJapanese | シュウ ソウ シュ ほうき |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:1306 |
| kJapaneseKun | HOUKI |
| kJapaneseOn | SOU SHUU |
| kJis0 | 5468 |
| kKangXi | 0330.060 |
| kKorean | CHWU |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 1590 |
| kMandarin | zhǒu |
| kMatthews | 1299 |
| kMeyerWempe | 175a |
| kMojiJoho | MJ010830 MJ010830:E0101 MJ010831:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 08854 08854:E0101 |
| kNelson | 1581 |
| kPhonetic | 81 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+4721+50.3.5 C+4721+58.3.5 |
| kRSUnicode | 50.5 |
| kSBGY | 324.32 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+7B92<kMatthews,kMeyerWempe |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 193.13 210.06 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | zhǒu粵zaau2,zau2 |
| kSpecializedSemanticVariant | U+7B92<kFenn |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 1590 |
| kTang | jiǒu |
| kTGHZ2013 | 482.120:zhǒu |
| kTotalStrokes | 8 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJMT |
| kXerox | 255:154 |
| kXHC1983 | 1506.010:zhǒu |