U+4E5B "乛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
乛
U+4E5B "乛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that functions primarily as a radical known as the "second" or "bent stroke" radical, which is an evolution of the ancient pictograph for a hook or a curved line. It is not a commonly used standalone character in modern Chinese but appears as a component in more complex characters, often representing a bending or turning motion. In the Kangxi Dictionary, it is classified under radical number 5, and it is used in calligraphy and character decomposition to denote a specific stroke shape. Its meaning is closely tied to concepts of bending, turning, or secondary positioning in traditional East Asian script systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+4E5B |
| 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 | 乛 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 乛 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE4 0xB9 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x4E5B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00004E5B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u4e5b |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCangjie | XN |
| kCantonese | waang4 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0167.111 |
| kDefinition | kwukyel |
| kHanYu | 10048.042 |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0167.111 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10048.041 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0083.171 |
| kIRG_GSource | GK-686A |
| kIRG_HSource | H-8BC6 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-2139 |
| kKangXi | 0083.171 |
| kMandarin | ya |
| kPseudoGB1 | 9380 |
| kRSUnicode | 5.0 |
| kTotalStrokes | 1 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | H |