U+5E83 "広" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

広

U+5E83 "広" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents the concept of "wide," "broad," or "extensive," and is a simplified form of the traditional character "廣." It is commonly used in both modern Chinese and Japanese writing, appearing in words such as "広大" meaning vast or "広場" meaning plaza or square. The character is composed of the radical "广" which signifies a cliff or shelter, emphasizing enclosure or spaciousness, and its structure reflects an ideographic origin related to physical breadth. In Japan, it is known as the kanji "hiro" and is a frequent element in names and place names, such as Hiroshima, which literally means "broad island." Overall, this character is integral to expressing spatial and abstract extension across East Asian languages.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5E83
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	広
HTML Hex Encoding	広
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0xBA 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5E83
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005E83
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5e83

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

kCCCII	333D2A
kCNS1986	E-2248
kCNS1992	3-2248
kCangjie	II
kCantonese	gwong2
kDaeJaweon	0652.180
kDefinition	broad, wide, extensive
kEACC	333D2A
kFourCornerCode	0023.2
kHangul	광:N
kHanYu	20873.021
kIICore	AJ
kIRGDaeJaweon	0652.180
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	20873.021
kIRGKangXi	0343.081
kIRG_GSource	GE-3829
kIRG_HSource	H-FBC3
kIRG_JSource	J0-392D
kIRG_KSource	K2-304F
kIRG_TSource	T3-2248
kJapanese	コウひろいひろまるひろめるひろがるひろげる
kJoyoKanji	2010
kKoreanName	2015
kJapaneseKun	HIROI HIROMERU HIROGERU
kJapaneseOn	KOU
kJis0	2513
kKangXi	0343.081
kKorean	KWANG
kMandarin	guǎng
kMojiJoho	MJ010963
kMorohashi	09224'
kNelson	1499
kPhonetic	750*
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+1983+28.2.3 C+1983+53.3.2
kRSUnicode	53.2
kTotalStrokes	5
kUnihanCore2020	HJ