# 口 U+53E3 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-53E3

A Chinese character meaning “mouth; open end; entrance, gate”, read kǒu in Mandarin.

| | |
|---|---|
| Character | `口` |
| Codepoint | U+53E3 |
| Name | CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-53E3 |
| Block | [CJK Unified Ideographs](https://unicodekit.com/block/cjk-unified-ideographs) |
| Script | Han |
| Category | Other Letter (Lo) |
| Unicode version | 1.1 |
| HTML | `&#21475;` `&#x53E3;` |
| CSS | `\53E3` |
| JavaScript | `\u53E3` |
| UTF-8 | E5 8F A3 |
| UTF-16 | 53E3 |
| Definition | mouth; open end; entrance, gate |
| Mandarin | kǒu |
| Cantonese | hau2 |
| Japanese | KOU KU KUCHI |
| Korean | KWU |

## Related characters

- 叢 [U+53E2 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-53E2](https://unicodekit.com/char/53E2)
- 古 [U+53E4 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-53E4](https://unicodekit.com/char/53E4)
- 叡 [U+53E1 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-53E1](https://unicodekit.com/char/53E1)
- 句 [U+53E5 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-53E5](https://unicodekit.com/char/53E5)
- 叠 [U+53E0 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-53E0](https://unicodekit.com/char/53E0)
- 另 [U+53E6 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-53E6](https://unicodekit.com/char/53E6)
- 叟 [U+53DF CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-53DF](https://unicodekit.com/char/53DF)
- 叧 [U+53E7 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-53E7](https://unicodekit.com/char/53E7)
- 叞 [U+53DE CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-53DE](https://unicodekit.com/char/53DE)
- 叨 [U+53E8 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-53E8](https://unicodekit.com/char/53E8)
- 叝 [U+53DD CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-53DD](https://unicodekit.com/char/53DD)
- 叩 [U+53E9 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-53E9](https://unicodekit.com/char/53E9)

Page: https://unicodekit.com/char/53E3 · JSON: https://unicodekit.com/characters/53E3
