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Glyph for U+53EF
Source: Noto CJK

U+53EF CJK Unified Ideo­graph-​53EF

U+53EF 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 may, can, -able; possibly. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is kě.

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

Representations

System Representation
Nº 21487
UTF-8 E5 8F AF
UTF-16 53 EF
UTF-32 00 00 53 EF
URL-Quoted %E5%8F%AF
HTML hex reference 可
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake 可
Encoding: BIG5 (hex bytes) A5 69
Encoding: BIG5HKSCS (hex bytes) A5 69
Encoding: CP932 (hex bytes) 89 C2
Encoding: CP949 (hex bytes) CA A6
Encoding: CP950 (hex bytes) A5 69
Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes) B2 C4
Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) B2 C4
Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) B2 C4
Encoding: EUC_KR (hex bytes) CA A6
Encoding: GB2312 (hex bytes) BF C9
Encoding: GBK (hex bytes) BF C9
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) BF C9
Encoding: HZ (hex bytes) 7E 7B 3F 49 7E 7D
Encoding: ISO2022_JP (hex bytes) 1B 24 42 32 44 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_1 (hex bytes) 1B 24 42 32 44 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes) 1B 24 42 32 44 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes) 1B 24 42 32 44 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes) 1B 24 42 32 44 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes) 1B 24 42 32 44 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_KR (hex bytes) 1B 24 29 43 0E 4A 26 0F
Encoding: JOHAB (hex bytes) E0 36
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS (hex bytes) 89 C2
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) 89 C2
Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) 89 C2
Pīnyīn kě

Related Characters

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-53EF
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+53EF CJK Unified Ideograph-53EF
Lowercase (Lower) ✘︎
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+53EF CJK Unified Ideograph-53EF
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+53EF CJK Unified Ideograph-53EF
Uppercase (Upper) ✘︎
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+53EF CJK Unified Ideograph-53EF
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+53EF CJK Unified Ideograph-53EF
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+53EF CJK Unified Ideograph-53EF
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+53EF CJK Unified Ideograph-53EF
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+53EF CJK Unified Ideograph-53EF
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+53EF CJK Unified Ideograph-53EF
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) ✘︎
Modifier Combining Mark (MCM) ✘︎
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+53EF CJK Unified Ideograph-53EF
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+53EF CJK Unified Ideograph-53EF
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+53EF CJK Unified Ideograph-53EF
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+53EF CJK Unified Ideograph-53EF
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) U
Big Five Mapping (kBigFive) A569
CCCII Mapping (kCCCII) 213530
CNS 11643-1986 Mapping (kCNS1986) 1-462B
CNS 11643-1992 Mapping (kCNS1992) 1-462B
Cangjie Input Code (kCangjie) MNR
kCantonese (kCantonese) ho2
kCihaiT (kCihaiT) 244.102
kCowles (kCowles) 1117
kDaeJaweon (kDaeJaweon) 0383.070
Unihan Definition (kDefinition) may, can, -able; possibly
kEACC (kEACC) 213530
kFanqie (kFanqie) 枯我
kFenn (kFenn) 699A
kFennIndex (kFennIndex) 253.10 254.01
kFourCornerCode (kFourCornerCode) 1062.0
kGB0 (kGB0) 3141
kGB1 (kGB1) 3141
kGSR (kGSR) 0001a
kGradeLevel (kGradeLevel) 1
kHKGlyph (kHKGlyph) 0475
kHanYu (kHanYu) 10567.070
kHangul (kHangul) 가:0E
kHanyuPinlu (kHanyuPinlu) kě(6054)
kHanyuPinyin (kHanyuPinyin) 10567.070:kě,gē,kè
kIICore (kIICore) AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon (kIRGDaeJaweon) 0383.070
kIRGHanyuDaZidian (kIRGHanyuDaZidian) 10567.070
kIRGKangXi (kIRGKangXi) 0172.120
kIRG_GSource (kIRG_GSource) G0-3F49
kIRG_HSource (kIRG_HSource) HB1-A569
kIRG_JSource (kIRG_JSource) J0-3244
kIRG_KPSource (kIRG_KPSource) KP0-CDA6
kIRG_KSource (kIRG_KSource) K0-4A26
kIRG_TSource (kIRG_TSource) T1-462B
kIRG_VSource (kIRG_VSource) V1-4E3C
kJapanese (kJapanese) カ コク べし よい
kJapaneseKun (kJapaneseKun) YOI BESHI BAKARI
kJapaneseOn (kJapaneseOn) KA KOKU
kJis0 (kJis0) 1836
kJoyoKanji (kJoyoKanji) 2010
kKangXi (kKangXi) 0172.120
kKarlgren (kKarlgren) 414
kKorean (kKorean) KA KUK
kKoreanEducationHanja (kKoreanEducationHanja) 2007
kLau (kLau) 1202
kMainlandTelegraph (kMainlandTelegraph) 0668
kMandarin (kMandarin) kě
kMatthews (kMatthews) 3381
kMeyerWempe (kMeyerWempe) 753
kMojiJoho (kMojiJoho) MJ008037
kMorohashi (kMorohashi) 03245
kNelson (kNelson) 0024
kPhonetic (kPhonetic) 487
Radical Stroke Count (Adobe Japan 1-6) (kRSAdobe_Japan1_6) C+1348+30.3.2
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode) (kRSUnicode) 30.2
kSBGY (kSBGY) 304.54
kSMSZD2003Index (kSMSZD2003Index) 88.05
kSMSZD2003Readings (kSMSZD2003Readings) kě粵ho2 kè粵hak1
kTGH (kTGH) 2013:212
kTGHZ2013 (kTGHZ2013) 195.190:kě 196.050:kè
Taiwanese Telegraph Code (kTaiwanTelegraph) 0668
kTang (kTang) *kɑ̌
Stroke Number (kTotalStrokes) 5
UnihanCore2020 Set (kUnihanCore2020) GHJKMPT
Quốc ngữ Pronunciation (kVietnamese) khả
kXHC1983 (kXHC1983) 0640.020:kě 0643.020:kè
Xerox Code (kXerox) 241:067