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Glyph for U+53C9
Source: Noto CJK

U+53C9 CJK Unified Ideo­graph-​53C9

U+53C9 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 crotch; fork, prong. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is chā.

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+53C9 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.

Representations

System Representation
Nº 21449
UTF-8 E5 8F 89
UTF-16 53 C9
UTF-32 00 00 53 C9
URL-Quoted %E5%8F%89
HTML hex reference 叉
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake 叉
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) F3 A9
Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) BA B5
Pīnyīn chā

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-53C9
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+53C9 CJK Unified Ideograph-53C9
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+53C9 CJK Unified Ideograph-53C9
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+53C9 CJK Unified Ideograph-53C9
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+53C9 CJK Unified Ideograph-53C9
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+53C9 CJK Unified Ideograph-53C9
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+53C9 CJK Unified Ideograph-53C9
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+53C9 CJK Unified Ideograph-53C9
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+53C9 CJK Unified Ideograph-53C9
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+53C9 CJK Unified Ideograph-53C9
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+53C9 CJK Unified Ideograph-53C9
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+53C9 CJK Unified Ideograph-53C9
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+53C9 CJK Unified Ideograph-53C9
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+53C9 CJK Unified Ideograph-53C9
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) U
Big Five Mapping (kBigFive) A465
CCCII Mapping (kCCCII) 213521
CNS 11643-1986 Mapping (kCNS1986) 1-4446
CNS 11643-1992 Mapping (kCNS1992) 1-4446
Cangjie Input Code (kCangjie) EI
kCantonese (kCantonese) caa1
kCihaiT (kCihaiT) 233.404
kCowles (kCowles) 401
kDaeJaweon (kDaeJaweon) 0374.150
Unihan Definition (kDefinition) crotch; fork, prong
kEACC (kEACC) 213521
kFenn (kFenn) 538A
kFennIndex (kFennIndex) 8.02
kFourCornerCode (kFourCornerCode) 1740.0
kFrequency (kFrequency) 5
kGB0 (kGB0) 1870
kGB1 (kGB1) 1870
kHKGlyph (kHKGlyph) 0463
kHanYu (kHanYu) 10390.020
kHangul (kHangul) 차:0N
kHanyuPinyin (kHanyuPinyin) 10390.020:chā,chá,chǎ,chà
kIICore (kIICore) AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon (kIRGDaeJaweon) 0374.150
kIRGHanyuDaZidian (kIRGHanyuDaZidian) 10390.020
kIRGKangXi (kIRGKangXi) 0165.010
kIRG_GSource (kIRG_GSource) G0-3266
kIRG_HSource (kIRG_HSource) HB1-A465
kIRG_JSource (kIRG_JSource) J0-3A35
kIRG_KPSource (kIRG_KPSource) KP0-ECAA
kIRG_KSource (kIRG_KSource) K0-7329
kIRG_TSource (kIRG_TSource) T1-4446
kIRG_VSource (kIRG_VSource) V2-8A61
kJapanese (kJapanese) サ シャ また
kJapaneseKun (kJapaneseKun) MATA
kJapaneseOn (kJapaneseOn) SHA SAI SA
kJinmeiyoKanji (kJinmeiyoKanji) 2010
kJis0 (kJis0) 2621
kKangXi (kKangXi) 0165.010
kKorean (kKorean) CHA
kKoreanName (kKoreanName) 2015
kLau (kLau) 162 163
kMainlandTelegraph (kMainlandTelegraph) 0643
kMandarin (kMandarin) chā
kMatthews (kMatthews) 96
kMeyerWempe (kMeyerWempe) 54
kMojiJoho (kMojiJoho) MJ007988 MJ007987:E0102 MJ007988:E0103
kMorohashi (kMorohashi) 03116 03116:E0103
kNelson (kNelson) 0856
kPhonetic (kPhonetic) 11
Radical Stroke Count (Adobe Japan 1-6) (kRSAdobe_Japan1_6) C+2085+29.2.1 V+20281+29.2.1
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode) (kRSUnicode) 29.1
kSBGY (kSBGY) 093.41 167.40
kSMSZD2003Index (kSMSZD2003Index) 83.01 6.15
kSMSZD2003Readings (kSMSZD2003Readings) chā粵caa1 chá粵caa1 chǎ粵caa5
Specialized Semantic Variant (kSpecializedSemanticVariant) Glyph for U+91F5 U+91F5
kTGH (kTGH) 2013:71
kTGHZ2013 (kTGHZ2013) 033.150:chā 034.090:chá 035.060:chǎ 035.100:chà
Taiwanese Telegraph Code (kTaiwanTelegraph) 0643
Stroke Number (kTotalStrokes) 3
UnihanCore2020 Set (kUnihanCore2020) GHJKMPT
kXHC1983 (kXHC1983) 0112.020:chā 0114.100:chá 0114.130:chǎ 0115.060:chà
Xerox Code (kXerox) 261:076