U+523A

(unnamed character)

Lo — Other Letter
Han
Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
21050

Encoding Table

This table shows the exact bytes used to represent U+523A in each encoding. Unicode encodings (UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32) support every character; legacy encodings only cover a limited character set and show "not supported" when a character falls outside their range.

Encoding Bytes (Hex) Bytes (Decimal) Byte count
UTF-8 E5 88 BA 229 136 186 3
UTF-16 LE 3A 52 58 82 2
UTF-16 BE 52 3A 82 58 2
UTF-32 LE 3A 52 00 00 58 82 0 0 4
UTF-32 BE 00 00 52 3A 0 0 82 58 4
ASCII not supported
Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) not supported
Windows-1252 not supported
ISO-8859-2 (Latin-2) not supported
ISO-8859-5 (Cyrillic) not supported
KOI8-R not supported
Shift-JIS 8E 68 142 104 2
EUC-JP BB C9 187 201 2
GBK B4 CC 180 204 2
Big5 A8 EB 168 235 2

Escape Sequences

How to reference this character in source code, markup, and URLs.

none
刺
刺
\523A
\u523A
%E5%88%BA
\u523a
21050

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UTF-8 Binary Breakdown

UTF-8 encodes this character as 3 bytes. The leading 1110 prefix on byte 1 signals a 3-byte sequence. Bytes 2 and 3 begin with 10 to mark them as continuation bytes.

Byte 1
1 1 1 0 0 1 0 1
E5
·
Byte 2
1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
88
·
Byte 3
1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0
BA
UTF-8: E5 88 BA · 3 bytes · Codepoint U+523A

Unicode Properties

Introduced in Unicode 1.1

Nearby Characters in CJK Unified Ideographs