U+50CA "僊" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
僊
U+50CA "僊" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents a celestial being or immortal, specifically referring to a fairy or a spirit in Daoist mythology, often spelled as "xian." It is composed of the radical for "person" (亻) on the left and the phonetic component "xian" (仙) on the right, sharing meaning and pronunciation with the more common character 仙. Historically used in classical Chinese texts, this variant emphasizes the elevated or transcendent nature of such beings, and it appears in ancient literature describing mythical figures who have achieved spiritual immortality.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+50CA |
| 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 | 僊 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 僊 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x83 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x50CA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000050CA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u50ca |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | DCB9 |
| kCCCII | 21677B |
| kCNS1986 | 2-415E |
| kCNS1992 | 2-415E |
| kCangjie | OMWU |
| kCantonese | sin1 |
| kCihaiT | 125.102 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0246.150 |
| kDefinition | Taoist super-being, transcendent, immortal |
| kEACC | 21677B |
| kFanqie | 相然 |
| kFennIndex | 177.04 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2121.2 |
| kGSR | 0206b |
| kHangul | 선:0N |
| kHanYu | 10209.020 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10209.020:xiān |
| kIICore | AJHKP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0246.150 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10209.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0115.290 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-3137 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-DCB9 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-5122 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E2B1 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-603A |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-415E |
| kJapanese | セン |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | YAMABITO SENNIN |
| kJapaneseOn | SEN |
| kJis0 | 4902 |
| kKangXi | 0115.290 |
| kKorean | SEN |
| kLau | 2797 |
| kMandarin | xiān |
| kMatthews | 2707 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2805a |
| kMojiJoho | MJ007056 MJ007056:E0103 MJ007054:E0104 MJ007055:E0105 MJ007057:E0106 |
| kMorohashi | 01055:E0104 |
| kNelson | 0524 |
| kPhonetic | 191 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+4185+9.2.12 V+7982+9.2.11 V+14101+9.2.11 |
| kRSUnicode | 9.11 |
| kSBGY | 136.44 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+4ED9<kLau,kMatthews |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 40.17 |
| kSpecializedSemanticVariant | U+4ED9 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0287 |
| kTang | *siɛn siɛn |
| kTotalStrokes | 14 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kXerox | 322:157 |
| kXHC1983 | 1243.071:xiān |