U+53DF "叟" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

叟
Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+53DF "叟" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that primarily means "old man" or "elderly gentleman" and is often used in classical and modern Chinese texts to refer to an aged male figure with a respectful or neutral connotation. Its structure combines the radical for "rice" or "grain" with components suggesting an older person holding a staff, reflecting its ancient pictographic roots. In historical usage, it appears in literature and poetry to denote wisdom or seniority, and it remains a standard character in the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideograph block, recognized across multiple East Asian writing systems with slight pronunciation variations.

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General Properties

Code Point
U+53DF
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
叟
HTML Hex Encoding
叟
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE5 0x8F 0x9F
UTF-16 Encoding
0x53DF
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000053DF
C/C++/Java Escape
\u53df

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
ADEE
kCCCII
213529
kCNS1986
1-5451
kCNS1992
1-5451
kCangjie
HXLE
kCantonese
sau2
kCihaiT
237.201
kDaeJaweon
0378.130
kDefinition
old man; elder
kEACC
213529
kFanqie
蘇后
kFenn
681B
kFennIndex
473.06
kFourCornerCode
7740.7
kGB0
5937
kGB1
5937
kGSR
1097b
kHangul
수:1N
kHanYu
10399.010
kHanyuPinyin
10399.010:sōu,sǒu,xiāo
kHKGlyph
0471
kIICore
AGTJHM
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
10399.010
kIRG_GSource
G0-5B45
kIRG_HSource
HB1-ADEE
kIRG_JSource
J0-5257
kIRG_KPSource
KP1-3914
kIRG_KSource
K1-6529
kIRG_TSource
T1-5451
kJapanese
ソウ シュウ ショウ シン おきな
kKoreanName
2015
kTGH
2013:4260
kJapaneseKun
OKINA
kJapaneseOn
SOU SHUU
kJis0
5055
kKangXi
0166.210
kKorean
SWU
kMainlandTelegraph
0652
kMandarin
sǒu
kMatthews
5470
kMeyerWempe
2559a
kMojiJoho
MJ008018 MJ008018:E0102 MJ008019:E0103 MJ008017:E0104
kMorohashi
03176:E0103 03151:E0104
kNelson
0863
kPhonetic
1143 1519
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+4332+29.2.7 V+14111+29.2.8
kRSUnicode
29.8
kSBGY
326.44
kSemanticVariant
U+5081<kMatthews,kMeyerWempe U+53DC<kMatthews
kSMSZD2003Index
84.19
kSMSZD2003Readings
sǒu粵sau2
kSpecializedSemanticVariant
U+58B0<kMeyerWempe
kTaiwanTelegraph
0652
kTang
*sǒu
kTGHZ2013
349.090:sǒu
kTotalStrokes
10
kUnihanCore2020
GHJMT
kXerox
246:311
kXHC1983
1094.040:sǒu