U+695A "楚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

楚

U+695A "楚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "clear" or "distinct," but also carries historical and cultural significance as the name of the ancient State of Chu during the Zhou dynasty, a major kingdom in southern China known for its distinct culture and contributions to Chinese civilization. In modern usage, it appears in words like "清楚" (qingchu, meaning "clear" or "understood") and "楚国" (Chu guo, referring to the historical state), and it is also a common surname. The character is composed of the wood radical suggesting a connection to trees or wooden objects, combined with phonetic elements, and it holds a place in the CJK Unified Ideographs block of the Unicode standard, which encodes characters used in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+695A
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	楚
HTML Hex Encoding	楚
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE6 0xA5 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding	0x695A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000695A
C/C++/Java Escape	\u695a

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

kBigFive	B7A1
kCCCII	214527
kCNS1986	1-6447
kCNS1992	1-6447
kCangjie	DDNYO
kCantonese	co2
kCihaiT	708.503
kCowles	574
kDaeJaweon	0927.080
kDefinition	name of feudal state; clear
kEACC	214527
kFanqie	創舉瘡據
kFenn	492B
kFennIndex	98.07
kFourCornerCode	4480.1
kGB0	1994
kGB1	1994
kGradeLevel	2
kGSR	0088a
kHangul	초:0N
kHanYu	21244.090
kHanyuPinlu	chu(279)
kHanyuPinyin	21244.090:chǔ
kHKGlyph	1957
kIICore	AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	0927.080
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	21244.090
kIRGKangXi	0539.230
kIRG_GSource	G0-337E
kIRG_HSource	HB1-B7A1
kIRG_JSource	J0-413F
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-EDE8
kIRG_KSource	K0-7522
kIRG_TSource	T1-6447
kIRG_VSource	V1-5A3D
kJapanese	ソショしもとすわえいばら
kJinmeiyoKanji	2010
kKoreanName	2015
kTGH	2013:2864
kJapaneseKun	IBARA SHIMOTO SUWAE
kJapaneseOn	SO
kJis0	3331
kKangXi	0539.230
kKorean	CHO
kMainlandTelegraph	2806
kMandarin	chǔ
kMatthews	1393
kMeyerWempe	327
kMojiJoho	MJ014202
kMorohashi	15141
kNelson	3022
kPhonetic	235 1226
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+2753+75.4.9 C+2753+103.5.8
kRSUnicode	75.9
kSBGY	258.30 363.37
kSMSZD2003Index	325.03 443.07
kSMSZD2003Readings	chǔ粵co2
kTaiwanTelegraph	2806
kTang	*chriǔ
kTGHZ2013	050.140:chǔ
kTotalStrokes	13
kUnihanCore2020	GHJKMPT
kVietnamese	sở
kXerox	246:160
kXHC1983	0160.060:chǔ