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Glyph for U+8003
Source: Noto CJK

U+8003 CJK Unified Ideo­graph-​8003

U+8003 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 examine, test; investigate. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is kǎo.

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+8003 behaves as Ideographic regarding line breaks. It has type Other Letter for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Radical 125 or radical old (老部) meaning "old" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 22 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

老 is also the 123rd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with 耂 being its associated indexing component.

Representations

System Representation
32771
UTF-8 E8 80 83
UTF-16 80 03
UTF-32 00 00 80 03
URL-Quoted %E8%80%83
HTML hex reference 考
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake 考
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) CD C5
Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) B9 CD
Pīnyīn kǎo

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8003
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+8003 CJK Unified Ideograph-8003
Lowercase
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+8003 CJK Unified Ideograph-8003
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+8003 CJK Unified Ideograph-8003
Uppercase
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+8003 CJK Unified Ideograph-8003
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+8003 CJK Unified Ideograph-8003
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+8003 CJK Unified Ideograph-8003
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+8003 CJK Unified Ideograph-8003
Case Folding Glyph for U+8003 CJK Unified Ideograph-8003
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+8003 CJK Unified Ideograph-8003
Grapheme Cluster Break Any
Grapheme Base
Grapheme Extend
Grapheme Link
Hex Digit
Hyphen
ID Continue
ID Start
IDS Binary Operator
IDS Trinary Operator and
IDSU 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start 0
Ideographic
InCB None
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+8003 CJK Unified Ideograph-8003
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKC_SCF Glyph for U+8003 CJK Unified Ideograph-8003
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+8003 CJK Unified Ideograph-8003
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+8003 CJK Unified Ideograph-8003
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation U
Big Five Mapping A6D2
CCCII Mapping 21525D
CNS 11643-1986 Mapping 1-4853
CNS 11643-1992 Mapping 1-4853
Cangjie Input Code JKYS
kCantonese haau2
kCihaiT 1079.101
kCowles 957
kDaeJaweon 1408.010
Unihan Definition examine, test; investigate
kEACC 21525D
kFenn 190C
kFennIndex 245.05
kFourCornerCode 4420.7
kFrequency 2
kGB0 3128
kGB1 3128
kGSR 1041d
kGradeLevel 2
kHKGlyph 3229
kHanYu 42779.020
kHangul 고:0E
kHanyuPinlu kǎo(334)
kHanyuPinyin 42779.020:kǎo
kIICore AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon 1408.010
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 42779.020
kIRGKangXi 0960.270
kIRG_GSource G0-3F3C
kIRG_HSource HB1-A6D2
kIRG_JSource J0-394D
kIRG_KPSource KP0-CFEF
kIRG_KSource K0-4D45
kIRG_TSource T1-4853
kIRG_VSource V1-6356
kJapanese コウ かんがえる
kJapaneseKun KANGAERU KANGAE
kJapaneseOn KOU
kJis0 2545
kJoyoKanji 2010
kKangXi 0960.270
kKarlgren 311
kKorean KO
kKoreanEducationHanja 2007
kLau 1109 1110
kMainlandTelegraph 5072
kMandarin kǎo
kMatthews 3299
kMeyerWempe 648
kMojiJoho MJ020753 MJ020753:E0102 MJ020754:E0103
kMorohashi 28843:E0103
kNelson 3684
kPhonetic 425
Radical Stroke Count (Adobe Japan 1-6) C+2015+125.4.2 V+13445+125.4.2
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode) 125.0
kSBGY 303.43
kSMSZD2003Index 542.02
kSMSZD2003Readings kǎo粵haau2
Semantic Variant Glyph for U+6537 U+6537
kTGH 2013:358
kTGHZ2013 194.070:kǎo
Taiwanese Telegraph Code 5072
kTang kɑ̌u
Stroke Number 6
UnihanCore2020 Set GHJKMPT
Quốc ngữ Pronunciation khảo
kXHC1983 0636.010:kǎo
Xerox Code 244:167