U+53FB "" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+53FB "" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used primarily in Cantonese and some other regional Chinese languages, where it conveys a meaning of cleverness, intelligence, or capability, often in a positive sense similar to "smart" or "able." It is commonly found in the name of the Southeast Asian country "Brunei," which is written in Chinese as 文莱 (Wénlái) with 叻 appearing in historical contexts, though it is less frequent in standard Mandarin usage. Structurally, it belongs to the left radical 口 (mouth) and the phonetic component 力 (strength), reflecting its phonetic and semantic roots in the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideograph set.

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
叻
HTML Hex Encoding
叻
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE5 0x8F 0xBB
UTF-16 Encoding
0x53FB
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000053FB
C/C++/Java Escape
\u53fb

Unihan Properties

kBigFive
A57B
kCCCII
216E57
kCNS1986
1-463D
kCNS1992
1-463D
kCangjie
RKS
kCantonese
lak6
kCheungBauer
030/02;RKS;lek1,lik1
kCheungBauerIndex
346.10 347.01
kCihaiT
248.502
kCowles
2334
kDefinition
used in place names; (Cant.) smart, clever
kEACC
216E57
kFourCornerCode
6402.7
kGB0
6323
kGB1
6323
kHanYu
10575.010
kHanyuPinyin
10575.010:lè,lì
kIICore
AGTM
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
10575.010
kIRG_GSource
G0-5F37
kIRG_HSource
HB1-A57B
kIRG_JSource
JMJ-008051
kIRG_TSource
T1-463D
kIRG_VSource
V1-4E43
kJapanese
ロク リョク
kTGH
2013:3540
kJapaneseOn
ROKU RYOKU
kKangXi
0174.091
kMainlandTelegraph
0930
kMandarin
kMeyerWempe
1557
kMojiJoho
MJ008051
kMorohashi
03269
kPhonetic
801
kRSUnicode
30.2
kSMSZD2003Index
89.07 65.13
kSMSZD2003Readings
lè粵lak6,laak6 lié粵lek1
kTaiwanTelegraph
0930
kTGHZ2013
212.020:lè
kTotalStrokes
5
kUnihanCore2020
GHMT
kVietnamese
sựt
kXerox
272:053
kXHC1983
0683.080:lè