U+5023 "倣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+5023 "倣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character historically used primarily in East Asian writing systems, particularly in traditional Chinese and Japanese, where it denotes the concept of "imitation" or "emulation." This character is composed of the radical for "person" on the left, suggesting human action, and a phonetic component on the right that contributes to its pronunciation, often read as "fǎng" in Mandarin and "hō" or "bō" in Japanese. It appears in classical texts and modern usage to describe copying or modeling after something, such as in artistic or behavioral contexts. While less common in everyday simplified Chinese, it remains a standard part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified repertoire, encoded for cross-platform text representation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5023
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	倣
HTML Hex Encoding	倣
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x80 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5023
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005023
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5023

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	ADC0
kCCCII	21316D
kCNS1986	1-5423
kCNS1992	1-5423
kCangjie	OYSK
kCantonese	fong2
kCihaiT	115.406
kCowles	792
kDaeJaweon	0231.040
kDefinition	imitate
kEACC	3F3078
kFanqie	分网
kFenn	261E
kFennIndex	131.08
kFourCornerCode	2824.0
kGradeLevel	3
kHangul	방:0E
kHanYu	10183.020
kHKGlyph	0170
kIICore	ATJHKP
kIRGDaeJaweon	0231.040
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10183.020
kIRGKangXi	0108.140
kIRG_GSource	GE-307B
kIRG_HSource	HB1-ADC0
kIRG_JSource	J0-4A6F
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-DDAF
kIRG_KSource	K0-5B27
kIRG_TSource	T1-5423
kIRG_VSource	V1-4B62
kJapanese	ホウ ボウ ならう
kJoyoKanji	2010
kKoreanEducationHanja	2007
kJapaneseKun	NARAU
kJapaneseOn	HOU
kJis0	4279
kKangXi	0108.140
kKarlgren	26
kKorean	PANG
kMandarin	fǎng
kMatthews	1808
kMeyerWempe	533
kMojiJoho	MJ006854
kMorohashi	00785
kNelson	0466
kPhonetic	377
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+3647+9.2.8
kRSUnicode	9.8
kSBGY	313.03
kSemanticVariant	U+4EFF<kMatthews
kSMSZD2003Index	34.15
kTaiwanTelegraph	0236
kTotalStrokes	10
kUnihanCore2020	HJKMPT
kVietnamese	phỏng
kXerox	322:362
kXHC1983	0309.051:fǎng