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

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+5DDE "" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a logogram used in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) languages, where it primarily denotes an administrative division such as a province, state, or prefecture, historically referring to a territorial unit in ancient China. Its visual form, composed of three vertical strokes with surrounding dots or lines, is thought to represent a river or land divided into sections, reflecting its semantic roots in geography and governance. In modern usage, it appears in place names like Guangzhou or in words for "continent" (e.g., 亚洲 for Asia) and is a common component in compound terms across East Asian scripts.

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
州
HTML Hex Encoding
州
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE5 0xB7 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding
0x5DDE
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00005DDE
C/C++/Java Escape
\u5dde

Unihan Properties

kBigFive
A67B
kCCCII
213C35
kCNS1986
1-477C
kCNS1992
1-477C
kCangjie
ILIL
kCantonese
zau1
kCihaiT
462.302
kCowles
159
kDaeJaweon
0624.090
kDefinition
administrative division, state
kEACC
213C35
kFanqie
職流
kFenn
426C
kFennIndex
89.13
kFourCornerCode
3200.0
kGB0
5461
kGB1
5461
kGSR
1086a
kHangul
주:0E
kHanYu
10046.030
kHanyuPinlu
zhōu(30)
kHanyuPinyin
10046.030:zhōu
kHKGlyph
1132
kIICore
AGTJHKMP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
10046.030
kIRG_GSource
G0-565D
kIRG_HSource
HB1-A67B
kIRG_JSource
J0-3D23
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-E9E5
kIRG_KSource
K0-7136
kIRG_TSource
T1-477C
kIRG_VSource
V1-5358
kJapanese
シュウ ス す しま
kJoyoKanji
2010
kKoreanEducationHanja
2007
kTGH
2013:535
kJapaneseKun
SU SHIMA
kJapaneseOn
SHUU SU
kJis0
2903
kKangXi
0324.010
kKorean
CWU
kLau
1354
kMainlandTelegraph
1558
kMandarin
zhōu
kMatthews
1289
kMeyerWempe
173
kMojiJoho
MJ010764
kMorohashi
08678
kNelson
0099
kPhonetic
78
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+2349+47.3.3
kRSUnicode
47.3
kSBGY
206.15
kSMSZD2003Index
189.06
kSMSZD2003Readings
zhōu粵zau1
kTaiwanTelegraph
1558
kTang
*jiou
kTGHZ2013
481.110:zhōu
kTotalStrokes
6
kUnihanCore2020
GHJKMPT
kVietnamese
châu
kXerox
243:363
kXHC1983
1503.010:zhōu