U+530F "匏" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+530F "匏" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character representing a type of gourd or calabash, specifically referring to the bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria) that is dried and used as a container or utensil. This character is composed of a radical related to plants (艹) combined with elements suggesting a round, hollow shape, and it appears in classical Chinese literature and idioms such as "匏瓜" (páo guā), which metaphorically describes something useful but isolated or unused. In modern usage, it is encountered in historical texts, traditional medicine, and contexts involving ancient vessels or musical instruments made from gourds.
General Properties
Code Point
U+530F
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
匏
HTML Hex Encoding
匏
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE5 0x8C 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding
0x530F
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000530F
C/C++/Java Escape
\u530f
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Han
Unihan Properties
kBigFive
B0CC
kCCCII
213446
kCNS1986
1-5931
kCNS1992
1-5931
kCangjie
KSPRU
kCantonese
paau4
kCihaiT
201.404
kDaeJaweon
0341.170
kDefinition
gourd; musical instrument
kEACC
213446
kFanqie
薄交
kFourCornerCode
4721.2
kGB0
6243
kGB1
6243
kGSR
1113f
kHangul
포:0N
kHanYu
10542.040
kHanyuPinyin
10542.040:páo
kHKGlyph
0408
kIICore
AGTHKP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
10542.040
kIRG_GSource
G0-5E4B
kIRG_HSource
HB1-B0CC
kIRG_JSource
J0-5237
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-F1BC
kIRG_KSource
K0-7852
kIRG_TSource
T1-5931
kIRG_VSource
V1-4D57
kJapanese
ホウ ビョウ ひさご
kKoreanName
2015
kTGH
2013:4799
kJapaneseKun
HISAGO
kJapaneseOn
HOU
kJis0
5023
kKangXi
0151.330
kKorean
PHO
kMainlandTelegraph
0549
kMandarin
páo
kMatthews
4967
kMeyerWempe
2258a
kMojiJoho
MJ007770 MJ007770:E0101 MJ007771:E0102
kMorohashi
02544 02544:E0101
kPhonetic
1011
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+4300+20.2.9
kRSUnicode
20.9
kSBGY
154.21
kSemanticVariant
U+74DF<kMatthews,kMeyerWempe
kSMSZD2003Index
71.07 150.09
kSMSZD2003Readings
páo粵paau4
kTaiwanTelegraph
0549
kTGHZ2013
277.050:páo
kTotalStrokes
11
kUnihanCore2020
GHJKMPT
kVietnamese
bầu
kXerox
274:164
kXHC1983
0856.050:páo