U+53DF CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-53DF
U+53DF was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block 
This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Han script. The Unihan Database defines it as old man; elder. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is sǒu.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Wide East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Left To Right and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+53DF behaves as Ideographic regarding line breaks. It has type OLetter for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 21471 |
| UTF-8 | E5 8F 9F |
| UTF-16 | 53 DF |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 53 DF |
| URL-Quoted | %E5%8F%9F |
| HTML-Escape | 叟 |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | å |
| Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) | D2 D7 |
| Pīnyīn | sǒu |
| IRG_GSource | G0-5B45 |
| IRG_HSource | HB1- |
| IRG_JSource | J0-5257 |
| IRG_KPSource | KP1-391 |
| IRG_KSource | K1-6529 |
| IRG_TSource | T1-5451 |
| BigFive | ADEE |
| CCCII | 213529 |
| CNS1986 | 1-5451 |
| CNS1992 | 1-5451 |
| EACC | 213529 |
| GB0 | 5937 |
| GB1 | 5937 |
| Jis0 | 5055 |
| KPS1 | 3914 |
| KSC1 | 6909 |
| MainlandTelegraph | 0652 |
| TaiwanTelegraph | 0652 |
| Xerox | 246:311 |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Age (age) | 1.1 |
| Unicode Name (na) | CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-53DF |
| Unicode 1 Name (na1) | — |
| Block (blk) | CJK |
| 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) |
 |
| Lowercase (Lower) | ✘ |
| Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) |
|
| Lowercase Mapping (lc) |
|
| Uppercase (Upper) | ✘ |
| Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) |
|
| Uppercase Mapping (uc) |
|
| Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) |
|
| Titlecase Mapping (tc) |
|
| Case Folding (cf) |
|
| ASCII Hex Digit (AHex) | ✘ |
| Alphabetic (Alpha) | ✔ |
| Bidi Control (Bidi_C) | ✘ |
| Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M) | ✘ |
| Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) |
|
| Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) | None |
| Cased (Cased) | ✘ |
| Composition Exclusion (CE) | ✘ |
| Case Ignorable (CI) | ✘ |
| Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex) | ✘ |
| 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) | ✘ |
| Dash (Dash) | ✘ |
| Deprecated (Dep) | ✘ |
| Default Ignorable Code Point (DI) | ✘ |
| Diacritic (Dia) | ✘ |
| East Asian Width (ea) | Wide |
| Extender (Ext) | ✘ |
| FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) |
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| Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) | Any |
| Grapheme Base (Gr_Base) | ✔ |
| Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext) | ✘ |
| Grapheme Link (Gr_Link) | ✘ |
| Hex Digit (Hex) | ✘ |
| Hangul Syllable Type (hst) | Not Applicable |
| Hyphen (Hyphen) | ✘ |
| ID Continue (IDC) | ✔ |
| Ideographic (Ideo) | ✔ |
| ID Start (IDS) | ✔ |
| IDS Binary Operator (IDSB) | ✘ |
| IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST) | ✘ |
| InMC (InMC) | — |
| Indic Positional Category (InPC) | NA |
| Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) | Other |
| ISO 10646 Comment (isc) | — |
| Joining Group (jg) | No_Joining_Group |
| Join Control (Join_C) | ✘ |
| Jamo Short Name (JSN) | — |
| Joining Type (jt) | Non Joining |
| kIICore (kIICore) | AGT |
| kIRG_GSource (kIRG_GSource) | G0-5B45 |
| kIRG_HSource (kIRG_HSource) | HB1- |
| kIRG_JSource (kIRG_JSource) | J0-5257 |
| kIRG_KPSource (kIRG_KPSource) | KP1-391 |
| kIRG_KSource (kIRG_KSource) | K1-6529 |
| kIRG_TSource (kIRG_TSource) | T1-5451 |
| kIRGDaeJaweon (kIRGDaeJaweon) | 0378.130 |
| kIRGDaiKanwaZiten (kIRGDaiKanwaZiten) | 03176 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian (kIRGHanyuDaZidian) | 10399.010 |
| kIRGKangXi (kIRGKangXi) | 0166.210 |
| kBigFive (kBigFive) | ADEE |
| kCangjie (kCangjie) | HXLE |
| kCantonese (kCantonese) | sau2 |
| kCCCII (kCCCII) | 213529 |
| kCihaiT (kCihaiT) | 237.201 |
| kCNS1986 (kCNS1986) | 1-5451 |
| kCNS1992 (kCNS1992) | 1-5451 |
| kDaeJaweon (kDaeJaweon) | 0378.130 |
| Unihan Definition (kDefinition) | old man; elder |
| kEACC (kEACC) | 213529 |
| kFenn (kFenn) | 681B |
| kFennIndex (kFennIndex) | 473.06 |
| kFourCornerCode (kFourCornerCode) | 7740.7 |
| kGB0 (kGB0) | 5937 |
| kGB1 (kGB1) | 5937 |
| kGSR (kGSR) | 1097b |
| kHangul (kHangul) | 수 |
| kHanYu (kHanYu) | 10399.010 |
| kHanyuPinyin (kHanyuPinyin) | 10399.010:sōu,sǒu,xiāo |
| kHKGlyph (kHKGlyph) | 0471 |
| kJapaneseKun (kJapaneseKun) | OKINA |
| kJapaneseOn (kJapaneseOn) | SOU SHUU |
| kJis0 (kJis0) | 5055 |
| kKangXi (kKangXi) | 0166.210 |
| kKorean (kKorean) | SWU |
| kKPS1 (kKPS1) | 3914 |
| kKSC1 (kKSC1) | 6909 |
| kMainlandTelegraph (kMainlandTelegraph) | 0652 |
| kMandarin (kMandarin) | sǒu |
| kMatthews (kMatthews) | 5470 |
| kMeyerWempe (kMeyerWempe) | 2559a |
| kMorohashi (kMorohashi) | 03176 |
| kNelson (kNelson) | 0863 |
| kPhonetic (kPhonetic) | 1143 1519 |
| Radical Stroke Count (Adobe Japan 1-6) (kRSAdobe_Japan1_6) | C+4332+29.2.7 V+14111+29.2.8 |
| Radical Stroke Count (KangXi) (kRSKangXi) | 29.8 |
| Radical Stroke Count (Unicode) (kRSUnicode) | 29.8 |
| kSBGY (kSBGY) | 326.44 |
| Semantic Variant (kSemanticVariant) |
  |
| Specialized Semantic Variant (kSpecializedSemanticVariant) |
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| kTaiwanTelegraph (kTaiwanTelegraph) | 0652 |
| kTang (kTang) | *sǒu |
| Stroke Number (kTotalStrokes) | 9 |
| kXerox (kXerox) | 246:311 |
| kXHC1983 (kXHC1983) | 1094.040:sǒu |
| z Variant (kZVariant) |
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| Line Break (lb) | Ideographic |
| 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) |
|
| NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) | Yes |
| Numeric Type (nt) | None |
| Numeric Value (nv) | NaN |
| 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) | ✘ |
| Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn) | ✘ |
| Pattern White Space (Pat_WS) | ✘ |
| Quotation Mark (QMark) | ✘ |
| Radical (Radical) | ✘ |
| Sentence Break (SB) | OLetter |
| Simple Case Folding (scf) |
|
| Script Extension (scx) | Han |
| Soft Dotted (SD) | ✘ |
| STerm (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) | ✘ |