This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Han script. The Unihan Database defines it as north; northern; northward. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is běi.
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+5317 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts. The glyph can be confused with 2 other glyphs.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
北, meaning "north", may refer to:
Kita (surname), a Japanese surname
A given name (pronounced Běi in Mandarin and Buk in Korean)
Choe Buk (fl. 1755–85), Joseon Dynasty painter
Law Pak (born 1929), Hong Kong football coach
Representations
System
Representation (click value to copy)
Nº
21271
UTF-8
E5 8C 97
UTF-16
53 17
UTF-32
00 00 53 17
URL-Quoted
%E5%8C%97
HTML hex reference
北
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake
北
Encoding: BIG5 (hex bytes)
A5 5F
Encoding: BIG5HKSCS (hex bytes)
A5 5F
Encoding: CP932 (hex bytes)
96 6B
Encoding: CP949 (hex bytes)
DD C1
Encoding: CP950 (hex bytes)
A5 5F
Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes)
CB CC
Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes)
CB CC
Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes)
CB CC
Encoding: EUC_KR (hex bytes)
DD C1
Encoding: GB2312 (hex bytes)
B1 B1
Encoding: GBK (hex bytes)
B1 B1
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)
B1 B1
Encoding: HZ (hex bytes)
7E 7B 31 31 7E 7D
Encoding: ISO2022_JP (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 4B 4C 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_1 (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 4B 4C 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 4B 4C 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 4B 4C 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 4B 4C 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 4B 4C 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_KR (hex bytes)
1B 24 29 43 0E 5D 41 0F
Encoding: JOHAB (hex bytes)
E9 C1
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS (hex bytes)
96 6B
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes)
96 6B
Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes)
96 6B
Pīnyīn
běi
RFC 5137
\u'5317'
Bash and Zsh inside echo -e
\u5317
C and C++
\u5317
C#
\u5317
CSS
\005317
Excel
=UNICHAR(21271)
Go
\u5317
JavaScript
\u5317
Modern JavaScript since ES6
\u{5317}
JSON
\u5317
Java
\u5317
Lua
\u{5317}
Matlab
char(21271)
Perl
"\x{5317}"
PHP
\u{5317}
PostgreSQL
U&'\5317'
PowerShell
`u{5317}
Python
\u5317
Ruby
\u{5317}
Rust
\u{5317}
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