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Glyph for U+53E9
Source: Noto Traditional Nushu

U+53E9 CJK UNIFIED IDEO­GRAPH-​53E9

U+53E9 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 knock, ask; kowtow, bow. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is kòu.

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. In text U+53E9 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 21481
UTF-8 E5 8F A9
UTF-16 53 E9
UTF-32 00 00 53 E9
URL-Quoted %E5%8F%A9
HTML-Escape 叩
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake 叩
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) CD B0
Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) C3 A1
Pīnyīn kòu

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-53E9
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 Glyph for U+53E9 CJK Unified Ideograph-53E9
Lowercase ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+53E9 CJK Unified Ideograph-53E9
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+53E9 CJK Unified Ideograph-53E9
Uppercase ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+53E9 CJK Unified Ideograph-53E9
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+53E9 CJK Unified Ideograph-53E9
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+53E9 CJK Unified Ideograph-53E9
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+53E9 CJK Unified Ideograph-53E9
Case Folding Glyph for U+53E9 CJK Unified Ideograph-53E9
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 Glyph for U+53E9 CJK Unified Ideograph-53E9
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 Glyph for U+53E9 CJK Unified Ideograph-53E9
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 Glyph for U+53E9 CJK Unified Ideograph-53E9
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 Glyph for U+53E9 CJK Unified Ideograph-53E9
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation U
Big Five Mapping A56E
CCCII Mapping 213531
CNS 11643-1986 Mapping 1-4630
CNS 11643-1992 Mapping 1-4630
Cangjie Input Code RSL
kCantonese kau3
kCihaiT 243.301
kCowles 1931
kDaeJaweon 0382.060
Unihan Definition knock, ask; kowtow, bow
kEACC 213531
kFenn 694D
kFennIndex 257.03
kFourCornerCode 6702.0
kFrequency 5
kGB0 6321
kGB1 6321
kGSR 0110d
kHKGlyph 0480
kHanYu 10573.030
kHangul 고:0N
kHanyuPinyin 10573.030:kòu
kIICore AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon 0382.060
kIRGDaiKanwaZiten 03238
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10573.030
kIRGKangXi 0172.040
kIRG_GSource G0-5F35
kIRG_HSource HB1-A56E
kIRG_JSource J0-4321
kIRG_KPSource KP0-CFDA
kIRG_KSource K0-4D30
kIRG_TSource T1-4630
kIRG_VSource V1-4E37
kJapaneseKun TATAKU TATAKI
kJapaneseOn KOU
kJis0 3501
kKPS0 CFDA
kKSC0 4516
kKangXi 0172.040
kKarlgren 419
kKorean KO
kKoreanName 2015
kLau 1671
kMainlandTelegraph 0661
kMandarin kòu
kMatthews 3435
kMeyerWempe 1081
kMorohashi 03238
kNelson 0876
kPhonetic 445
Radical Stroke Count (Adobe Japan 1-6) C+2911+26.2.3 C+2911+30.3.2
Radical Stroke Count (KangXi) 30.2
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode) 30.2
kSBGY 327.36
kTGH 2013:254
kTGHZ2013 199.010:kòu
Taiwanese Telegraph Code 0661
kTang kǒu
Stroke Number 5
UnihanCore2020 Set GHJKMPT
Quốc ngữ Pronunciation khấu
kXHC1983 0652.060:kòu
Xerox Code 271:246