U+5BFC "" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+5BFC "" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that carries the core meaning of "to lead," "to guide," or "to conduct," and is widely used in both modern and classical written Chinese. It is composed of the radical 寸 (cun, meaning "thumb" or "measure") combined with elements suggesting direction or movement, reflecting its sense of steering or showing the way. This character appears in common words such as 导引 (dǎoyǐn, "to guide"), 导航 (dǎoháng, "navigation"), and 导演 (dǎoyǎn, "director" of a film), making it an essential component for expressing concepts of leadership, instruction, and transmission in East Asian languages.

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
导
HTML Hex Encoding
导
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE5 0xAF 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding
0x5BFC
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00005BFC
C/C++/Java Escape
\u5bfc

Unihan Properties

kCCCII
273B44
kCangjie
RUDI
kCantonese
dou6
kDefinition
direct, guide, lead, conduct
kEACC
273B44
kFourCornerCode
7734
kGB0
2128
kHanYu
10504.020
kHanyuPinlu
dǎo(1403)
kIICore
AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
10504.020
kIRG_GSource
G0-353C
kTGH
2013:567
kKangXi
0293.331
kMainlandTelegraph
1418
kMandarin
dǎo
kPhonetic
597 1357
kRSUnicode
41.3
kSMSZD2003Index
173.07
kTGHZ2013
068.030:dǎo
kTotalStrokes
6
kUnihanCore2020
G
kXHC1983
0219.020:dǎo