U+4E1D "丝" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+4E1D "丝" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means silk or a threadlike thing, often symbolizing something fine, delicate, or filamentous in nature. It is composed of two smaller components that visually suggest twisted threads, reflecting its historical origin as a pictograph of silk fibers. In modern usage, this character appears in words related to silk fabric, minute quantities, and string or wire, and it serves as a common radical in many other Chinese characters related to textiles and fibers.

General Properties

Code Point	U+4E1D
Version Added	1.1
Name	CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Block	CJK Unified Ideographs
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	丝
HTML Hex Encoding	丝
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE4 0xB8 0x9D
UTF-16 Encoding	0x4E1D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00004E1D
C/C++/Java Escape	\u4e1d

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Ideographic
East Asian Width	Wide
Script	Han
Script Extensions	Han
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	OLetter
Ideographic	Yes
Unified Ideograph	Yes

Unihan Properties

kCCCII	27513B
kCangjie	VVM
kCantonese	si1
kDefinition	silk; fine thread; wire; strings
kEACC	27513B
kFourCornerCode	2210
kGB0	4331
kHanYu	10017.080
kHanyuPinlu	sī(186)
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10017.080
kIRGKangXi	0078.021
kIRG_GSource	G0-4B3F
kTGH	2013:347
kKangXi	0078.021
kMainlandTelegraph	4828
kMandarin	sī
kPhonetic	1170*
kRSUnicode	1.4
kSMSZD2003Index	4.06
kTGHZ2013	345.180:sī
kTotalStrokes	5
kTraditionalVariant	"絲" U+7D72 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	1086.020:sī