U+5B57 "字" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

字
Source: Noto Fangsong Khitan Small Script Rotated Source: Browser Default

U+5B57 "字" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that fundamentally means "character," "word," or "letter," and it is commonly used in East Asian languages including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. This ideograph originates from ancient pictographs, combining a roof radical (宀) over a child radical (子), symbolizing the nurturing or birthing of written symbols within a home or place of learning. As a core component of the written language, "字" appears in countless compound words, such as "汉字" for Chinese characters, "字母" for alphabet, and "字典" for dictionary, reflecting its essential role in literacy and communication across East Asian cultures.

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General Properties

Code Point
U+5B57
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
字
HTML Hex Encoding
字
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE5 0xAD 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding
0x5B57
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00005B57
C/C++/Java Escape
\u5b57

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
A672
kCCCII
213A52
kCNS1986
1-4773
kCNS1992
1-4773
kCangjie
JND
kCantonese
zi6
kCihaiT
398.103
kCowles
4672
kDaeJaweon
0545.070
kDefinition
letter, character, word
kEACC
213A52
kFanqie
疾置
kFenn
112A
kFennIndex
586.02 587.01
kFourCornerCode
3040.7
kGB0
5554
kGB1
5554
kGradeLevel
1
kGSR
0964n
kHangul
자:0E
kHanYu
21010.020
kHanyuPinlu
zì(676) zi(138)
kHanyuPinyin
21010.020:zì
kHKGlyph
0974
kIICore
AGTJHKMP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
21010.020
kIRG_GSource
G0-5756
kIRG_HSource
HB1-A672
kIRG_JSource
J0-3B7A
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-E6AF
kIRG_KSource
K0-6D2E
kIRG_TSource
T1-4773
kIRG_VSource
V1-523E
kJapanese
ジ シ あざ あざな やしなう
kJoyoKanji
2010
kKoreanEducationHanja
2007
kTGH
2013:548
kJapaneseKun
AZA UMU MASU
kJapaneseOn
JI
kJis0
2790
kKangXi
0277.180
kKorean
CA
kLau
1446
kMainlandTelegraph
1316
kMandarin
zì
kMatthews
6942
kMeyerWempe
3536
kMojiJoho
MJ010057
kMorohashi
06942
kNelson
1281
kPhonetic
134 147
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+2248+39.3.3 C+2248+40.3.3
kRSUnicode
39.3
kSBGY
357.13
kSMSZD2003Index
163.06 166.09
kSMSZD2003Readings
zì粵zi6
kTaiwanTelegraph
1316
kTang
*dzhiə̀ dzhiə̀
kTGHZ2013
492.140:zì
kTotalStrokes
6
kUnihanCore2020
GHJKMPT
kVietnamese
tự
kXerox
242:041
kXHC1983
1533.040:zì