U+53E4 "古" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+53E4 "古" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents the concept of "old," "ancient," or "antiquity," and is commonly used in East Asian languages including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Its visual composition combines the radical for "ten" or "complete" with a component suggesting a mouth or enclosure, often interpreted as the idea of passing down stories or traditions across many generations. In modern usage, this ideograph appears frequently in words related to history, archaeology, and traditional culture, such as 古代 (ancient times) or 古典 (classical), and it carries a sense of timeworn wisdom and enduring legacy.
General Properties
Code Point
U+53E4
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
古
HTML Hex Encoding
古
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE5 0x8F 0xA4
UTF-16 Encoding
0x53E4
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000053E4
C/C++/Java Escape
\u53e4
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Han
Unihan Properties
kBigFive
A56A
kCCCII
21352E
kCNS1986
1-462C
kCNS1992
1-462C
kCangjie
JR
kCantonese
gu2
kCihaiT
240.102
kCowles
1796
kDaeJaweon
0380.060
kDefinition
old, classic, ancient
kEACC
21352E
kFanqie
公戶
kFenn
702B
kFennIndex
259.07
kFourCornerCode
4060.0
kGB0
2537
kGB1
2537
kGradeLevel
2
kGSR
0049a
kHangul
고:0E
kHanYu
10568.030
kHanyuPinlu
gǔ(440)
kHanyuPinyin
10568.030:gǔ,gù,kū
kHKGlyph
0476
kIICore
AGTJHKMP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
10568.030
kIRG_GSource
G0-3945
kIRG_HSource
HB1-A56A
kIRG_JSource
J0-3845
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-CFD9
kIRG_KSource
K0-4D2F
kIRG_TSource
T1-462C
kIRG_VSource
V1-4E34
kJapanese
コ ク ふるい ふるす いにしえ
kJoyoKanji
2010
kKoreanEducationHanja
2007
kTGH
2013:208
kJapaneseKun
FURUI INISHIE
kJapaneseOn
KO
kJis0
2437
kKangXi
0171.080
kKarlgren
421
kKorean
KO
kLau
1059
kMainlandTelegraph
0657
kMandarin
gǔ
kMatthews
3447
kMeyerWempe
1258
kMojiJoho
MJ008024
kMorohashi
03233
kNelson
0770
kPhonetic
753
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+1913+24.2.3 C+1913+30.3.2
kRSUnicode
30.2
kSBGY
265.39
kSMSZD2003Index
87.03 74.10
kSMSZD2003Readings
gǔ粵gu2
kTaiwanTelegraph
0657
kTang
*gǒ
kTGHZ2013
117.150:gǔ
kTotalStrokes
5
kUnihanCore2020
GHJKMPT
kVietnamese
cổ
kXerox
242:375
kXHC1983
0396.030:gǔ