U+4F0D "" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+4F0D "" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character with deep historical and cultural significance, primarily used to represent the number five in financial and formal contexts to prevent fraud or alteration, functioning as a capital numeral in the same way as characters like "壹" for one or "贰" for two. Beyond its numerical role, this character also carries the meaning of a "company" or "squad" in military terminology, tracing its origins to ancient Chinese administrative and martial organization, where it denoted a unit of five soldiers. Additionally, "伍" appears in classical literature and personal names, reflecting its versatility in embodying both numerical precision and structured grouping within the vast CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) character repertoire.

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
伍
HTML Hex Encoding
伍
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE4 0xBC 0x8D
UTF-16 Encoding
0x4F0D
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00004F0D
C/C++/Java Escape
\u4f0d

Unihan Properties

kAccountingNumeric
5
kBigFive
A5EE
kCCCII
393054
kCNS1986
1-4730
kCNS1992
1-4730
kCangjie
OMDM
kCantonese
ng5
kCihaiT
91.602
kCowles
2963 2967
kDaeJaweon
0202.040
kDefinition
five, company of five; troops
kEACC
393054
kFanqie
疑古
kFenn
762F
kFennIndex
608.02
kFourCornerCode
2121.7
kGB0
4673
kGB1
4673
kGradeLevel
4
kGSR
0058e
kHangul
오:0N
kHanYu
10118.010
kHanyuPinlu
wu(216)
kHanyuPinyin
10118.010:wǔ
kHKGlyph
0092
kIICore
AGTJHKMP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
10118.010
kIRG_GSource
G0-4E69
kIRG_HSource
HB1-A5EE
kIRG_JSource
J0-3860
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-F9CB
kIRG_KSource
K0-676A
kIRG_TSource
T1-4730
kIRG_VSource
V1-4A7D
kJapanese
kJinmeiyoKanji
2010
kKoreanName
2015
kTGH
2013:459
kJapaneseKun
KUMI ITSUTSU
kJapaneseOn
GO
kJis0
2464
kKangXi
0095.200
kKorean
O
kLau
2033 2292 2293
kMainlandTelegraph
0124
kMandarin
kMatthews
7187a
kMeyerWempe
1989 1992
kMojiJoho
MJ006573
kMorohashi
00435
kNelson
0369
kPhonetic
949
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+1940+9.2.4
kRSUnicode
9.4
kSBGY
266.18
kSMSZD2003Index
21.10
kSMSZD2003Readings
wǔ粵ng5
kSpecializedSemanticVariant
U+4E94<kMeyerWempe
kTaiwanTelegraph
0124
kTGHZ2013
389.060:wǔ
kTotalStrokes
6
kUnihanCore2020
GHJKMPT
kVietnamese
ngũ
kXerox
254:300
kXHC1983
1222.010:wǔ