U+9053 "道" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

道

U+9053 "道" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a foundational Chinese character pronounced as "dào" in Mandarin, meaning "way," "path," "road," or "the way" in a philosophical and spiritual sense. It is central to Taoism (Daoism), where it denotes the ultimate, ineffable principle underlying the universe, as described in the Dao De Jing. Beyond its metaphysical significance, the character is commonly used in everyday Chinese to refer to a physical route, a method, or a doctrine, and it appears in words like "地道" (dì dào) meaning "underground tunnel" or "authentic" and "知道" (zhī dào) meaning "to know." Its structure combines the radical for movement or walking (辵, simplified to 辶) with the element for "head" or "first" (首), symbolically suggesting a journey guided by insight.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9053
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	道
HTML Hex Encoding	道
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0x81 0x93
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9053
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009053
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9053

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	B944
kCCCII	215C36
kCNS1986	1-672C
kCNS1992	1-672C
kCangjie	YTHU
kCantonese	dou6
kCihaiT	1326.302
kCowles	4207
kDaeJaweon	1754.090
kDefinition	path, road, street; method, way
kEACC	215C36
kFanqie	徒晧
kFenn	855A
kFennIndex	501.02 502.02
kFourCornerCode	3830.6
kGB0	2132
kGB1	2132
kGradeLevel	1
kGSR	1048a
kHangul	도:0E
kHanYu	63864.010
kHanyuPinlu	dào(2324) dao(1654)
kHanyuPinyin	63864.010:dào,dǎo
kHKGlyph	4127
kIICore	AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	1754.090
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	63864.010
kIRGKangXi	1262.060
kIRG_GSource	G0-3540
kIRG_HSource	HB1-B944
kIRG_JSource	J0-463B
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-D6B0
kIRG_KSource	K0-5433
kIRG_TSource	T1-672C
kIRG_VSource	V1-6953
kJapanese	ドウトウみちいうみちびく
kJoyoKanji	2010
kKoreanEducationHanja	2007
kTGH	2013:2745
kJapaneseKun	MICHI IU MICHIBIKU
kJapaneseOn	DOU TOU
kJis0	3827
kKangXi	1262.060
kKorean	TO
kLau	576
kMainlandTelegraph	6670
kMandarin	dào
kMatthews	6136
kMeyerWempe	3145
kMojiJoho	MJ026058 MJ026058:E0102 MJ026059:E0103
kMorohashi	39010' 39010':E0102 39010:E0103
kNelson	4724
kPhonetic	1144 1357
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+3219+162.3.9 V+13963+162.4.9
kRSUnicode	162.9
kSBGY	301.45
kSMSZD2003Index	699.07
kSMSZD2003Readings	dào粵dou6
kTaiwanTelegraph	6670
kTang	dhɑ̀u dhɑ̌u
kTGHZ2013	068.140:dào
kTotalStrokes	12
kUnihanCore2020	GHJKMPT
kVietnamese	đạo
kXerox	241:104
kXHC1983	0220.020:dào