U+5143 "元" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
元
U+5143 "元" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "yuan," referring to the basic unit of currency in China (the renminbi) as well as in Japanese and Korean monetary systems. It also carries meanings of "first," "beginning," or "original," as seen in words like 元素 (element) and 元旦 (New Year's Day). Historically, it was used to denote the first emperor of a dynasty or the founding era, and it appears in the name of the Yuan Dynasty, established by Kublai Khan. This character, written with four strokes, is common in both simplified and traditional Chinese scripts and is widely recognized across East Asian languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5143 |
| 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 | 元 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 元 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x85 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5143 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005143 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5143 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A4B8 |
| kCCCII | 21326D |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4477 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4477 |
| kCangjie | MMU |
| kCantonese | jyun4 |
| kCihaiT | 131.402 |
| kCowles | 4918 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0258.030 |
| kDefinition | first; dollar; origin; head |
| kEACC | 21326D |
| kFanqie | 愚袁 |
| kFenn | 388C |
| kFennIndex | 650.03 |
| kFourCornerCode | 1021.1 |
| kGB0 | 5210 |
| kGB1 | 5210 |
| kGradeLevel | 1 |
| kGSR | 0257a |
| kHangul | 원:0E |
| kHanYu | 10264.060 |
| kHanyuPinlu | yuán(325) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10264.060:yuán |
| kHKGlyph | 0261 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0258.030 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10264.060 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0123.060 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-542A |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A4B8 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3835 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-FEB0 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6A2A |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4477 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-4C37 |
| kJapanese | ゲン ガン もと はじめ |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:80 |
| kJapaneseKun | MOTO KOUBE |
| kJapaneseOn | GEN GAN |
| kJis0 | 2421 |
| kKangXi | 0123.060 |
| kKorean | WEN |
| kLau | 3547 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0337 |
| kMandarin | yuán |
| kMatthews | 7707 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3662 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ007213 |
| kMorohashi | 01340 |
| kNelson | 0275 |
| kPhonetic | 1624 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1897+7.2.2 C+1897+10.2.2 |
| kRSUnicode | 10.2 |
| kSBGY | 113.01 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 43.12 13.04 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | yuán粵jyun4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0337 |
| kTang | *ngiuæn ngiuæn |
| kTGHZ2013 | 450.190:yuán |
| kTotalStrokes | 4 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | nguyên |
| kXerox | 242:253 |
| kXHC1983 | 1419.090:yuán |