U+512D "儭" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+512D "儭" CJK Unified Ideograph is a Chinese character primarily used in classical or literary contexts, where it carries the meaning of "to assist" or "to help," often with connotations of providing support under difficult circumstances. Its structure combines the radical for "person" (亻) with the phonetic component "親" (qīn), which itself implies closeness or intimacy, suggesting that the character originally described a close aide or associate. While it is rarely used in modern standard Chinese, it may appear in historical texts, regional dialects, or as a variant of related characters, and it is documented in the Unicode standard as part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, encoded to preserve its cultural and linguistic heritage across digital systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+512D
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	儭
HTML Hex Encoding	儭
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x84 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding	0x512D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000512D
C/C++/Java Escape	\u512d

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	EFB8
kCCCII	21692F
kCNS1986	2-6144
kCNS1992	2-6144
kCangjie	OYDU
kCantonese	can3
kCihaiT	130.401
kDaeJaweon	0255.110
kDefinition	to assist; to give alms
kFanqie	初覲 七遴
kFennIndex	27.02
kFourCornerCode	2621.0
kGB3	1778
kHanYu	10236.170
kHanyuPinyin	10236.170:chèn,qìn,qīn
kIRGDaeJaweon	0255.110
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10236.170
kIRGKangXi	0121.100
kIRG_GSource	G3-316E
kIRG_HSource	HB2-EFB8
kIRG_JSource	J1-325D
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-36F7
kIRG_KSource	K2-2372
kIRG_TSource	T2-6144
kJapanese	シン
kJapaneseKun	ITARU CHIKAI OSORERU URA SHIKU
kJapaneseOn	SHIN
kJis1	1861
kKangXi	0121.100
kKorean	CHUN
kMandarin	chèn
kMatthews	342
kMojiJoho	MJ007184
kMorohashi	01274
kPhonetic	64
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+21172+9.2.16
kRSUnicode	9.16
kSBGY	394.16 394.29
kSemanticVariant	U+896F<kMatthews
kTotalStrokes	18
kUnihanCore2020	HMT
kXHC1983	0133.081:chèn