Source: Noto CJK

U+53DF CJK Unified Ideograph-53DF

U+53DF was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (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 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 Other Letter 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 hex reference	叟
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake	åŸ
Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes)	D2 D7
Pīnyīn	sǒu

Related Characters

CJK Compatibility Ideograph-2F837

Confusables

CJK Compatibility Ideograph-2F837

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property	Value
Age	1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name	CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-53DF
Unicode 1 Name	—
Block	CJK Unified Ideographs
General Category	Other Letter
Script	Han
Bidirectional Category	Left To Right
Combining Class	Not Reordered
Decomposition Type	None
Decomposition Mapping	CJK Unified Ideograph-53DF
Lowercase	✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping	CJK Unified Ideograph-53DF
Lowercase Mapping	CJK Unified Ideograph-53DF
Uppercase	✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping	CJK Unified Ideograph-53DF
Uppercase Mapping	CJK Unified Ideograph-53DF
Simple Titlecase Mapping	CJK Unified Ideograph-53DF
Titlecase Mapping	CJK Unified Ideograph-53DF
Case Folding	CJK Unified Ideograph-53DF
ASCII Hex Digit	✘
Alphabetic	✔
Bidi Control	✘
Bidi Mirrored	✘
Composition Exclusion	✘
Case Ignorable	✘
Changes When Casefolded	✘
Changes When Casemapped	✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	✘
Changes When Lowercased	✘
Changes When Titlecased	✘
Changes When Uppercased	✘
Cased	✘
Full Composition Exclusion	✘
Default Ignorable Code Point	✘
Dash	✘
Deprecated	✘
Diacritic	✘
Emoji Modifier Base	✘
Emoji Component	✘
Emoji Modifier	✘
Emoji Presentation	✘
Emoji	✘
Extender	✘
Extended Pictographic	✘
FC NFKC Closure	CJK Unified Ideograph-53DF
Grapheme Cluster Break	Any
Grapheme Base	✔
Grapheme Extend	✘
Grapheme Link	✘
Hex Digit	✘
Hyphen	✘
ID Continue	✔
ID Start	✔
IDS Binary Operator	✘
IDS Trinary Operator and	✘
Ideographic	✔
Indic Mantra Category	—
Indic Positional Category	NA
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Jamo Short Name	—
Join Control	✘
Logical Order Exception	✘
Math	✘
Noncharacter Code Point	✘
NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Casefold	CJK Unified Ideograph-53DF
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Other Alphabetic	✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point	✘
Other Grapheme Extend	✘
Other ID Continue	✘
Other ID Start	✘
Other Lowercase	✘
Other Math	✘
Other Uppercase	✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark	✘
Pattern Syntax	✘
Pattern White Space	✘
Quotation Mark	✘
Regional Indicator	✘
Radical	✘
Sentence Break	Other Letter
Soft Dotted	✘
Sentence Terminal	✘
Terminal Punctuation	✘
Unified Ideograph	✔
Variation Selector	✘
Word Break	Other
White Space	✘
XID Continue	✔
XID Start	✔
Expands On NFC	✘
Expands On NFD	✘
Expands On NFKC	✘
Expands On NFKD	✘
Bidi Paired Bracket	CJK Unified Ideograph-53DF
Bidi Paired Bracket Type	None
East Asian Width	Wide
Hangul Syllable Type	Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment	—
Joining Group	No_Joining_Group
Joining Type	Non Joining
Line Break	Ideographic
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	not a number
Simple Case Folding	CJK Unified Ideograph-53DF
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation	U
Big Five Mapping	ADEE
CCCII Mapping	213529
CNS 11643-1986 Mapping	1-5451
CNS 11643-1992 Mapping	1-5451
Cangjie Input Code	HXLE
kCantonese	sau2
kCihaiT	237.201
kDaeJaweon	0378.130
Unihan Definition	old man; elder
kEACC	213529
kFenn	681B
kFennIndex	473.06
kFourCornerCode	7740.7
kGB0	5937
kGB1	5937
kGSR	1097b
kHKGlyph	0471
kHanYu	10399.010
kHangul	수:1N
kHanyuPinyin	10399.010:sōu,sǒu,xiāo
kIICore	AGTJHM
kIRGDaeJaweon	0378.130
kIRGDaiKanwaZiten	03176
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10399.010
kIRGKangXi	0166.210
kIRG_GSource	G0-5B45
kIRG_HSource	HB1-ADEE
kIRG_JSource	J0-5257
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-3914
kIRG_KSource	K1-6529
kIRG_TSource	T1-5451
kJapaneseKun	OKINA
kJapaneseOn	SOU SHUU
kJis0	5055
kKPS1	3914
kKSC1	6909
kKangXi	0166.210
kKorean	SWU
kKoreanName	2015
kMainlandTelegraph	0652
kMandarin	sǒu
kMatthews	5470
kMeyerWempe	2559a
kMorohashi	03176
kNelson	0863
kPhonetic	1143 1519
Radical Stroke Count (Adobe Japan 1-6)	C+4332+29.2.7 V+14111+29.2.8
Radical Stroke Count (KangXi)	29.8
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode)	29.8
kSBGY	326.44
Semantic Variant	U+5081 U+53DC
Specialized Semantic Variant	U+58B0
kTGH	2013:4260
kTGHZ2013	349.090:sǒu
Taiwanese Telegraph Code	0652
kTang	*sǒu
Stroke Number	9
UnihanCore2020 Set	GHJMT
kXHC1983	1094.040:sǒu
Xerox Code	246:311

U+53DF CJK Unified Ideo­graph-​53DF