U+5ED3 "廓" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
廓
U+5ED3 "廓" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "outline," "boundary," or "to expand," and it often carries a sense of breadth or enclosure. In classical and modern usage, it appears in words like 轮廓 (lúnkuò, meaning "contour" or "profile") and 廓清 (kuòqīng, meaning "to clarify" or "to sweep away"). This character belongs to the radical 广 (yǎn, representing a building or shelter), and its structure reflects a combination of semantic and phonetic components, evoking the idea of a spacious courtyard or the act of broadening a physical or conceptual space.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5ED3 |
| 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 | 廓 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 廓 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xBB 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5ED3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005ED3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5ed3 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B9F8 |
| kCCCII | 213D25 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6860 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6860 |
| kCangjie | IYDL |
| kCantonese | gwok3 |
| kCihaiT | 492.304 |
| kCowles | 776 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0661.040 |
| kDefinition | broad, wide, open, empty; to expand |
| kEACC | 213D25 |
| kFanqie | 苦郭 |
| kFourCornerCode | 0022.7 |
| kGB0 | 3210 |
| kGB1 | 3210 |
| kGSR | 0774g |
| kHangul | 곽:0N 확:0N |
| kHanYu | 20895.130 |
| kHanyuPinlu | kuò(22) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 20895.130:kuò |
| kHKGlyph | 1210 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0661.040 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 20895.130 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0350.010 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-402A |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B9F8 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3347 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-D3EE |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-4E29 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6860 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-5434 |
| kJapanese | カク くるわ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:2989 |
| kJapaneseKun | TORIDE KURUWA |
| kJapaneseOn | KAKU |
| kJis0 | 1939 |
| kKangXi | 0350.010 |
| kKarlgren | 478 |
| kKorean | KWAK HWAK |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 1674 |
| kMandarin | kuò |
| kMatthews | 3753 |
| kMeyerWempe | 523a |
| kMojiJoho | MJ011055 |
| kMorohashi | 09461 |
| kNelson | 1529 |
| kPhonetic | 747 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1445+53.3.11 |
| kRSUnicode | 53.11 |
| kSBGY | 509.38 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 202.14 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | kuò粵gwok3,kwok3 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 1674 |
| kTang | kuɑk |
| kTGHZ2013 | 205.030:kuò |
| kTotalStrokes | 13 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | quách |
| kXerox | 264:261 |
| kXHC1983 | 0665.010:kuò |