U+5348 "午" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+5348 "午" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that traditionally signifies "noon" or the "seventh Earthly Branch" in the Chinese zodiac, associated with the horse and the period from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. It is commonly used in East Asian languages to denote midday, and it appears in compounds such as 午餐 (wǔcān, meaning lunch) and 午休 (wǔxiū, meaning midday break). The character's form is pictorially derived from an ancient depiction of a pestle, reflecting its original meaning related to a tool for pounding, though its modern usage focuses on temporal and symbolic references. In Unicode, it belongs to the CJK Unified Ideographs block, encompassing shared characters used in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese writing systems.
General Properties
Code Point
U+5348
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
午
HTML Hex Encoding
午
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE5 0x8D 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding
0x5348
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00005348
C/C++/Java Escape
\u5348
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Han
Unihan Properties
kBigFive
A4C8
kCCCII
21345A
kCNS1986
1-4529
kCNS1992
1-4529
kCangjie
OJ
kCantonese
ng5
kCihaiT
214.401
kCowles
2965
kDaeJaweon
0354.010
kDefinition
seventh earthly branch
kEACC
21345A
kFanqie
疑古
kFenn
37A
kFennIndex
608.03
kFourCornerCode
8040.0
kGB0
4671
kGB1
4671
kGradeLevel
1
kGSR
0060a
kHangul
오:0E
kHanYu
10406.010
kHanyuPinlu
wǔ(258) wu(12)
kHanyuPinyin
10406.010:wǔ
kHKGlyph
0427
kIICore
AGTJHKMP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
10406.010
kIRG_GSource
G0-4E67
kIRG_HSource
HB1-A4C8
kIRG_JSource
J0-3861
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-F9CE
kIRG_KSource
K0-676D
kIRG_TSource
T1-4529
kIRG_VSource
V1-4D67
kJapanese
ゴ うま
kJoyoKanji
2010
kKoreanEducationHanja
2007
kTGH
2013:119
kJapaneseKun
UMA
kJapaneseOn
GO
kJis0
2465
kKangXi
0156.040
kKorean
O
kLau
2294
kMainlandTelegraph
0582
kMandarin
wǔ
kMatthews
7177
kMeyerWempe
1990
kMojiJoho
MJ007841
kMorohashi
02703
kNelson
0162
kPhonetic
950
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+1941+24.2.2
kRSUnicode
24.2
kSBGY
266.16
kSMSZD2003Index
74.06 8.08
kSMSZD2003Readings
wǔ粵ng5
kTaiwanTelegraph
0582
kTang
ngǒ
kTGHZ2013
389.050:wǔ
kTotalStrokes
4
kUnihanCore2020
GHJKMPT
kVietnamese
ngọ
kXerox
243:161
kXHC1983
1223.010:wǔ