U+515E "兞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+515E "兞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rarely used Chinese character that historically functioned as a phonetic or semantic component in East Asian writing, primarily appearing in classical or specialized texts. Its structure combines the radical "儿" (legs or human figure) with other elements, and while its exact meaning is obscure in modern usage, it is associated with an archaic or variant form related to concepts of measure or counting, often found in ancient dictionaries or scholarly references. This character is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, though it is not commonly employed in contemporary standard written Chinese or Japanese, making it more of a historical linguistic artifact than a practical everyday symbol.

General Properties

Code Point U+515E
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 兞
HTML Hex Encoding 兞
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0x85 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding 0x515E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000515E
C/C++/Java Escape \u515e

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 A25B
kCCCII 216956
kCNS1986 1-227B
kCNS1992 1-227B
kCangjie JUHQU
kCantonese hou4
kCihaiT 140.503
kDaeJaweon 0266.020
kDefinition milligram
kEACC 216956
kHanYu 31998.020
kIICore AT
kIRGDaeJaweon 0266.020
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 31998.020
kIRGKangXi 0125.201
kIRG_GSource GE-315C
kIRG_HSource HB0-A25B
kIRG_JSource JMJ-007253
kIRG_TSource T1-227B
kJapanese ミリグラム
kKangXi 0125.201
kMandarin máo
kMojiJoho MJ007253
kMorohashi 01388
kPhonetic 430 913
kRSUnicode 10.9
kTaiwanTelegraph 8100
kTotalStrokes 11
kUnihanCore2020 HMT
kXerox 302:056