U+5F93 "従" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

従

U+5F93 "従" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily functions as the simplified or alternative form of the traditional character "從," which carries the meanings of "to follow," "to obey," "to accompany," or "from." It is used in various contexts across East Asian writing systems, including Japanese, where it appears in the kanji form "従" as part of words like "従う" (shitagau, meaning to obey or follow) and "従業員" (juugyouin, meaning employee). This character is composed of the radical "彳" (meaning step or action) on the left and the component "从" (indicating a pair of people following) on the right, reflecting its semantic association with following or compliance. Its Unicode encoding ensures consistent digital representation across platforms and systems for text processing and document interchange.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5F93
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	従
HTML Hex Encoding	従
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0xBE 0x93
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5F93
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005F93
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5f93

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	2D3D6C
kCNS1986	E-3071
kCNS1992	3-3071
kCangjie	HOTYO
kCantonese	cung4
kDaeJaweon	0691.130
kDefinition	from, by, since, whence, through
kEACC	2D3D6C
kFourCornerCode	2828.1
kHanYu	20826.040
kIICore	AJ
kIRGDaeJaweon	0691.130
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	20826.040
kIRGKangXi	0367.271
kIRG_GSource	GE-385D
kIRG_JSource	J0-3D3E
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-422B
kIRG_KSource	K2-314C
kIRG_TSource	T3-3071
kJapanese	ジュウショウジュソウしたがうしたがえるしたがってより
kJoyoKanji	2010
kJapaneseKun	SHITAGAU SHITAGAERU YORI
kJapaneseOn	JUU SHOU JU
kJis0	2930
kKangXi	0367.271
kKorean	CONG
kMandarin	cóng
kMojiJoho	MJ011312 MJ011312:E0101 MJ057488:E0102
kMorohashi	10133 10133:E0101
kNelson	1613
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+2376+60.3.7
kRSUnicode	60.7
kTotalStrokes	10
kUnihanCore2020	J