U+5E2B "師" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

師

U+5E2B "師" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that traditionally represents a teacher, master, or model, and it is composed of components that evoke the meaning of guidance and authority, with the left side relating to a cloth or banner and the right side indicating a unit or group, reflecting its historical use in roles such as military commander or instructor. In modern usage, it appears in words like "老師" meaning teacher and "律師" meaning lawyer, and it is also a common surname in East Asian cultures. This character is encoded as part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block, encompassing languages such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese, where it may have slight variations in stroke order or pronunciation across these linguistic traditions.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5E2B
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	師
HTML Hex Encoding	師
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0xB8 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5E2B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005E2B
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5e2b

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Ideographic
East Asian Width	Wide
Script	Han
Script Extensions	Han
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	OLetter
Ideographic	Yes
Unified Ideograph	Yes

Unihan Properties

kBigFive	AE76
kCCCII	213C51
kCNS1986	1-553A
kCNS1992	1-553A
kCangjie	HRMLB
kCantonese	si1
kCihaiT	475.305
kCowles	3757
kDaeJaweon	0637.280
kDefinition	teacher, master, specialist; multitude, troops; hexagram ䷆
kEACC	213C51
kFanqie	疏夷
kFenn	753C
kFennIndex	449.03
kFourCornerCode	2172.7
kGB1	4206
kGradeLevel	1
kGSR	0559a
kHangul	사:0E
kHanYu	10740.020
kHanyuPinlu	shī(1142)
kHanyuPinyin	10740.020:shī
kHKGlyph	1160
kIICore	ATJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	0637.280
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10740.020
kIRGKangXi	0331.350
kIRG_GSource	G1-4A26
kIRG_HSource	HB1-AE76
kIRG_JSource	J0-3B55
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-E0D9
kIRG_KSource	K0-5E54
kIRG_TSource	T1-553A
kIRG_VSource	V1-536D
kJapanese	シおさ
kJoyoKanji	2010
kKoreanEducationHanja	2007
kJapaneseKun	MIYAKO IKUSA OSA
kJapaneseOn	SHI
kJis0	2753
kKangXi	0331.350
kKorean	SA
kLau	2754 2755
kMandarin	shī
kMatthews	5760
kMeyerWempe	2897
kMojiJoho	MJ010848 MJ010848:E0101 MJ057421:E0102 MJ057420:E0103 MJ057424:E0104
kMorohashi	08916 08916:E0101
kNelson	0113
kPhonetic	1171 1389
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+2211+50.3.7
kRSUnicode	50.7
kSBGY	051.36
kSimplifiedVariant	"师" U+5E08 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	194.05
kSMSZD2003Readings	shī粵si1
kTaiwanTelegraph	1597
kTang	*shri
kTotalStrokes	10
kUnihanCore2020	HJKMPT
kVietnamese	sư
kXerox	242:044
kXHC1983	1032.031:shī