U+4E52 "乒" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

乒

U+4E52 "乒" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily denotes the sound "ping," famously used in the compound word "乒乓球" (pīngpāng qiú), which means "table tennis" or "ping pong." In this context, "乒" represents the sound of the ball hitting the paddle, and it is often paired with its counterpart character "乓" (U+4E53) to form the onomatopoeic term for the sport. Beyond this specific usage, "乒" is rarely used independently in modern Chinese, but it appears as a phonetic component in some other characters and remains a recognizable symbol due to its association with the globally popular game. Its stroke composition and meaning are rooted in the broader CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideograph system, allowing it to be understood across these languages, though its primary usage is in Chinese.

General Properties

Code Point	U+4E52
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	乒
HTML Hex Encoding	乒
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE4 0xB9 0x92
UTF-16 Encoding	0x4E52
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00004E52
C/C++/Java Escape	\u4e52

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

kBigFive	A5E2
kCCCII	213042
kCNS1986	1-4724
kCNS1992	1-4724
kCangjie	OMH
kCantonese	bing1
kCihaiT	47.404
kDefinition	(used with 乓) “ping” of “ping pong”
kEACC	213042
kFourCornerCode	7220.1
kGB0	3825
kGB1	3825
kGradeLevel	2
kHanYu	10038.030
kHanyuPinlu	pīng(29)
kHanyuPinyin	10038.030:pīng
kHKGlyph	0033
kIICore	AGTHM
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10038.030
kIRGKangXi	0083.011
kIRG_GSource	G0-4639
kIRG_HSource	HB1-A5E2
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-006390
kIRG_KSource	K2-2136
kIRG_TSource	T1-4724
kJapanese	ヘイ
kTGH	2013:456
kJapaneseOn	HEI
kKangXi	0083.011
kLau	104 2507
kMainlandTelegraph	8003
kMandarin	pīng
kMatthews	5302
kMojiJoho	MJ006390
kMorohashi	00145
kPhonetic	1052
kRSUnicode	4.5
kSMSZD2003Index	8.17
kSMSZD2003Readings	pīng粵bing1,ping1
kTaiwanTelegraph	9692
kTGHZ2013	285.080:pīng
kTotalStrokes	6
kUnihanCore2020	GHMT
kXerox	266:041
kXHC1983	0878.060:pīng
kStrange	I:U+5175