U+517A "兺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
兺
U+517A "兺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rarely used Chinese character, classified as a variant of the more common character "兮" (xī), which functions as a grammatical particle in Classical Chinese, often akin to an exclamation or a rhythmic pause in poetry. Its structure combines the top radical "八" (meaning "eight" or "to divide") with the bottom element "𠃋", though its precise historical usage is obscure and it does not appear in standard modern Chinese dictionaries or common texts. This character is primarily of interest to scholars of historical orthography or those working with extensive CJK character sets, as it represents a specialized or deprecated form within the vast repertoire of Chinese script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+517A |
| 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 | 兺 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 兺 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x85 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x517A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000517A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u517a |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCangjie | XXCSH |
| kCantonese | fan1 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0344.140 |
| kHanYu | 10249.051 |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0344.140 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10249.051 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0128.101 |
| kIRG_GSource | GK-683F |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-068024 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-39B8 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-2426 |
| kKangXi | 0128.101 |
| kKorean | PPWUN |
| kMandarin | fēn |
| kMojiJoho | MJ068024 |
| kPhonetic | 353* |
| kPseudoGB1 | 9337 |
| kRSUnicode | 12.8 |
| kTotalStrokes | 10 |