U+4E53 "乓" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

乓

U+4E53 "乓" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily used in East Asian languages such as Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, where it is most commonly read as "pāng" in Chinese. Its meaning is onomatopoeic, representing a sharp, explosive sound like a bang or a thud, and it is often found in compound words, most notably in the game of table tennis, known as "乒乓球" (pīngpāng qiú), where it pairs with its counterpart "乒" (pīng) to mimic the sound of a ball being struck. The character itself is composed of the "人" (person) radical on top and "八" (eight) below, though its structure does not directly convey its sound-based meaning, reflecting its historical development as a phonetic borrowing rather than a purely pictographic representation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+4E53
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	乓
HTML Hex Encoding	乓
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE4 0xB9 0x93
UTF-16 Encoding	0x4E53
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00004E53
C/C++/Java Escape	\u4e53

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	A5E3
kCCCII	213043
kCNS1986	1-4725
kCNS1992	1-4725
kCangjie	OMI
kCantonese	bam1
kCihaiT	46.502
kDefinition	(used with 乒) “pong” of “ping pong”
kEACC	213043
kFourCornerCode	7203.1
kGB0	3750
kGB1	3750
kGradeLevel	2
kHanYu	10038.040
kHanyuPinlu	pāng(29)
kHanyuPinyin	10038.040:pāng
kHKGlyph	0034
kIICore	AGTHM
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10038.040
kIRGKangXi	0083.011
kIRG_GSource	G0-4552
kIRG_HSource	HB1-A5E3
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-006391
kIRG_KSource	K2-2137
kIRG_TSource	T1-4725
kJapanese	ホウ
kTGH	2013:457
kJapaneseOn	HAU
kKangXi	0083.011
kMainlandTelegraph	8004
kMandarin	pāng
kMatthews	4925
kMojiJoho	MJ006391
kMorohashi	00146
kPhonetic	1052
kRSUnicode	4.5 3.5
kSMSZD2003Index	7.02 9.04
kSMSZD2003Readings	pāng粵bam1,pong1
kTaiwanTelegraph	9693
kTGHZ2013	275.170:pāng
kTotalStrokes	6
kUnihanCore2020	GHMT
kXerox	266:042
kXHC1983	0853.120:pāng
kStrange	I:U+5175