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Glyph for U+53E3
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U+53E3 CJK Unified Ideo­graph-​53E3

U+53E3 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+4E00 to U+9FFF CJK Unified Ideographs in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Han script. The Unihan Database defines it as mouth; open end; entrance, gate. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is kǒu.

The glyph is not a composition. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+53E3 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts. The glyph can be confused with 4 other glyphs.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Radical 30 or radical mouth (口部) meaning "mouth" is one of 31 of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of 3 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 1,146 characters (out of 40 000) to be found under this radical.

口 is also the 37th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Representations

System Representation
Nº 21475
UTF-8 E5 8F A3
UTF-16 53 E3
UTF-32 00 00 53 E3
URL-Quoted %E5%8F%A3
HTML hex reference 口
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake 口
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) CF A2
Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) B8 FD
Pīnyīn kǒu

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-53E3
Unicode 1 Name (na1) —
Block (blk) CJK Unified Ideographs
General Category (gc) Other Letter
Script (sc) Han
Bidirectional Category (bc) Left To Right
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) none
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+53E3 CJK Unified Ideograph-53E3
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+53E3 CJK Unified Ideograph-53E3
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+53E3 CJK Unified Ideograph-53E3
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+53E3 CJK Unified Ideograph-53E3
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+53E3 CJK Unified Ideograph-53E3
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+53E3 CJK Unified Ideograph-53E3
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+53E3 CJK Unified Ideograph-53E3
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+53E3 CJK Unified Ideograph-53E3
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex) ✘
Alphabetic (Alpha) ✔
Bidi Control (Bidi_C) ✘
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M) ✘
Composition Exclusion (CE) ✘
Case Ignorable (CI) ✘
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF) ✘
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM) ✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF) ✘
Changes When Lowercased (CWL) ✘
Changes When Titlecased (CWT) ✘
Changes When Uppercased (CWU) ✘
Cased (Cased) ✘
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex) ✘
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI) ✘
Dash (Dash) ✘
Deprecated (Dep) ✘
Diacritic (Dia) ✘
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase) ✘
Emoji Component (EComp) ✘
Emoji Modifier (EMod) ✘
Emoji Presentation (EPres) ✘
Emoji (Emoji) ✘
Extender (Ext) ✘
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict) ✘
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+53E3 CJK Unified Ideograph-53E3
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base) ✔
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext) ✘
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link) ✘
Hex Digit (Hex) ✘
Hyphen (Hyphen) ✘
ID Continue (IDC) ✔
ID Start (IDS) ✔
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB) ✘
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST) ✘
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo) ✔
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC) —
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN) —
Join Control (Join_C) ✘
Logical Order Exception (LOE) ✘
Math (Math) ✘
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar) ✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+53E3 CJK Unified Ideograph-53E3
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+53E3 CJK Unified Ideograph-53E3
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) Yes
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha) ✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI) ✘
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext) ✘
Other ID Continue (OIDC) ✘
Other ID Start (OIDS) ✘
Other Lowercase (OLower) ✘
Other Math (OMath) ✘
Other Uppercase (OUpper) ✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM) ✘
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn) ✘
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS) ✘
Quotation Mark (QMark) ✘
Regional Indicator (RI) ✘
Radical (Radical) ✘
Sentence Break (SB) Other Letter
Soft Dotted (SD) ✘
Sentence Terminal (STerm) ✘
Terminal Punctuation (Term) ✘
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo) ✔
Variation Selector (VS) ✘
Word Break (WB) Other
White Space (WSpace) ✘
XID Continue (XIDC) ✔
XID Start (XIDS) ✔
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC) ✘
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD) ✘
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC) ✘
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD) ✘
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+53E3 CJK Unified Ideograph-53E3
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) wide
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc) —
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Ideographic
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+53E3 CJK Unified Ideograph-53E3
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) U
Big Five Mapping (kBigFive) A466
CCCII Mapping (kCCCII) 21352C
CNS 11643-1986 Mapping (kCNS1986) 1-4447
CNS 11643-1992 Mapping (kCNS1992) 1-4447
Cangjie Input Code (kCangjie) R
kCantonese (kCantonese) hau2
kCowles (kCowles) 1006
kDaeJaweon (kDaeJaweon) 0379.170
Unihan Definition (kDefinition) mouth; open end; entrance, gate
kEACC (kEACC) 21352C
kFenn (kFenn) 694A
kFennIndex (kFennIndex) 256.11 257.01
kFourCornerCode (kFourCornerCode) 6000.0
kFrequency (kFrequency) 2
kGB0 (kGB0) 3158
kGB1 (kGB1) 3158
kGSR (kGSR) 0110a
kGradeLevel (kGradeLevel) 1
kHDZRadBreak (kHDZRadBreak) ⼝[U+2F1D]:10566.140
kHKGlyph (kHKGlyph) 0474
kHanYu (kHanYu) 10566.140
kHangul (kHangul) 구:0E
kHanyuPinlu (kHanyuPinlu) kǒu(1647) kou(74)
kHanyuPinyin (kHanyuPinyin) 10566.140:kǒu
kIICore (kIICore) AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon (kIRGDaeJaweon) 0379.170
kIRGHanyuDaZidian (kIRGHanyuDaZidian) 10566.140
kIRGKangXi (kIRGKangXi) 0171.010
kIRG_GSource (kIRG_GSource) G0-3F5A
kIRG_HSource (kIRG_HSource) HB1-A466
kIRG_JSource (kIRG_JSource) J0-387D
kIRG_KPSource (kIRG_KPSource) KP0-D0E7
kIRG_KSource (kIRG_KSource) K0-4F22
kIRG_TSource (kIRG_TSource) T1-4447
kIRG_VSource (kIRG_VSource) V1-4E33
kJapanese (kJapanese) コウ ク くち
kJapaneseKun (kJapaneseKun) KUCHI
kJapaneseOn (kJapaneseOn) KOU KU
kJis0 (kJis0) 2493
kJoyoKanji (kJoyoKanji) 2010
kKangXi (kKangXi) 0171.010
kKarlgren (kKarlgren) 419
kKorean (kKorean) KWU
kKoreanEducationHanja (kKoreanEducationHanja) 2007
kLau (kLau) 1144
kMainlandTelegraph (kMainlandTelegraph) 0656
kMandarin (kMandarin) kǒu
kMatthews (kMatthews) 3434
kMeyerWempe (kMeyerWempe) 681
kMojiJoho (kMojiJoho) MJ008023
kMorohashi (kMorohashi) 03227
kNelson (kNelson) 0868
kPhonetic (kPhonetic) 445
Radical Stroke Count (Adobe Japan 1-6) (kRSAdobe_Japan1_6) C+1969+30.3.0
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode) (kRSUnicode) 30.0
kSBGY (kSBGY) 327.31
kSMSZD2003Index (kSMSZD2003Index) 87.01
kSMSZD2003Readings (kSMSZD2003Readings) kǒu粵hau2
kTGH (kTGH) 2013:38
kTGHZ2013 (kTGHZ2013) 198.130:kǒu
Taiwanese Telegraph Code (kTaiwanTelegraph) 0656
kTang (kTang) *kǒu
Stroke Number (kTotalStrokes) 3
UnihanCore2020 Set (kUnihanCore2020) GHJKMPT
Quốc ngữ Pronunciation (kVietnamese) khẩu
kXHC1983 (kXHC1983) 0649.070:kǒu
Xerox Code (kXerox) 241:356