U+6558 "敘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
敘
U+6558 "敘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means to talk, narrate, or discuss, and it also conveys the sense of order or arranging sequentially, often used in formal or literary contexts to indicate the act of telling a story or laying out a sequence of events. Its structure combines the radical for "speech" or "words" with a phonetic component, reflecting its semantic link to verbal expression and organization. Commonly found in classical Chinese texts and modern compound words like "敘述" meaning narration, this character is integral to conveying the idea of orderly discourse or chronological exposition in written and spoken language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+6558 |
| 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 | 敘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 敘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0x95 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x6558 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00006558 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u6558 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B1D4 |
| kCCCII | 214249 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5A78 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5A78 |
| kCangjie | ODOK |
| kCantonese | zeoi6 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0821.140 |
| kDefinition | express, state, relate, narrate |
| kEACC | 214249 |
| kFanqie | 徐吕 |
| kFourCornerCode | 8894.0 |
| kGSR | 0082o |
| kHangul | 서:N |
| kHanYu | 21463.030 |
| kHanyuPinlu | xù(18) |
| kHKGlyph | 1715 |
| kIICore | ATHM |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0821.140 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21463.030 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0472.051 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-3B39 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B1D4 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-5A47 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-4815 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-376F |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5A78 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-5825 |
| kJapanese | ジョ のべる |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | TSUIDERU TSUIDE |
| kJapaneseOn | JO |
| kJis0 | 5839 |
| kKangXi | 0472.051 |
| kKorean | SE |
| kLau | 1595 |
| kMandarin | xù |
| kMatthews | 2842 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3480 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ012986 |
| kMorohashi | 13206 |
| kPhonetic | 292 1610 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+5068+66.4.7 |
| kRSUnicode | 66.7 |
| kSBGY | 259.20 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+53D9<kHKGlyph,kLau,kMatthews U+654D<kHKGlyph,kMeyerWempe |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "叙" U+53D9 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 277.05 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 2402 |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJMT |
| kVietnamese | tự |
| kXHC1983 | 1302.161:xù |