U+5F53 "当" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
当
U+5F53 "当" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a fundamental Chinese character meaning "to serve as," "to act as," or "should," and it also conveys the sense of "when" or "just at a time," with its traditional counterpart being 當. It is composed of the radical 彐 (a simplified form of 手, meaning "hand") and a top component resembling a small roof or covering, originally depicting a hand reaching for something matched or appropriate, signifying equivalence or suitability. This character appears frequently in modern Chinese, Japanese, and Korean script, used in words like 当时 (at that time), 当然 (of course), and 担任 (to hold a position), and it plays a key role in expressing temporal, conditional, or obligatory meanings across East Asian languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5F53 |
| 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 | 当 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 当 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xBD 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5F53 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005F53 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5f53 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 273746 |
| kCNS1986 | E-2351 |
| kCNS1992 | 3-2351 |
| kCangjie | FSM |
| kCantonese | dong1 |
| kCihaiT | 507.101 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0591.090 |
| kDefinition | bear, accept, undertake; just |
| kEACC | 274C39 |
| kFennIndex | 497.03 |
| kFourCornerCode | 9017.7 |
| kGB0 | 2117 |
| kHanYu | 10562.120 |
| kHanyuPinlu | dāng(2483) dàng(474) dang(40) |
| kIICore | AGJ |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0591.090 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10562.120 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0297.061 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3531 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4576 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-3EC9 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-313C |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-2351 |
| kJapanese | トウ あたる あてる |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kTGH | 2013:418 |
| kJapaneseKun | ATARU ATERU ATE |
| kJapaneseOn | TOU |
| kJis0 | 3786 |
| kKangXi | 0297.061 |
| kKorean | TANG |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 3981 |
| kMandarin | dāng |
| kMojiJoho | MJ011230 |
| kMorohashi | 09913 |
| kNelson | 1359 |
| kPhonetic | 1167 1377 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+3184+42.3.3 C+3184+58.3.3 |
| kRSUnicode | 58.3 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "当" U+5F53 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 210.02 |
| kSpecializedSemanticVariant | U+7576<kFenn |
| kTGHZ2013 | 066.060,066.070:dāng 067.020:dàng |
| kTotalStrokes | 6 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "噹" U+5679 CJK Unified Ideograph-# "当" U+5F53 CJK Unified Ideograph-# "當" U+7576 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GJ |
| kXHC1983 | 0213.040:dāng 0216.040:dàng |