U+5184 "冄" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+5184 "冄" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and archaic Chinese character that historically represents the number four, serving as an early or variant form of the more common character 四 (sì). Its structure consists of two horizontal strokes, often interpreted as a simplified or ancient depiction of counting marks, and it appears in some classical texts and historical inscriptions, though it is largely obsolete in modern Mandarin usage. Occasionally conflated with or distinguished from the character 冂 (the radical for "wide" or "margin"), U+5184 holds specific interest for paleographers and students of ancient Chinese script evolution.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5184
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	冄
HTML Hex Encoding	冄
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x86 0x84
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5184
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005184
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5184

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

kCCCII	216969
kCNS1986	E-214D
kCNS1992	3-214D
kCangjie	BMM
kCantonese	jim5
kCihaiT	164.204
kDaeJaweon	0289.130
kDefinition	tender; weak; gradually alternating
kEACC	216969
kFanqie	汝鹽
kGSR	0622a
kHanYu	10096.160
kIRGDaeJaweon	0289.130
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10096.160
kIRGKangXi	0128.330
kIRG_GSource	GE-3168
kIRG_JSource	J1-3271
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-3744
kIRG_KSource	K2-2429
kIRG_MSource	MD-5184
kIRG_TSource	T3-214D
kJapanese	ゼン
kJapaneseKun	AYAUI
kJapaneseOn	ZEN NEN
kJis1	1881
kKangXi	0128.330
kKorean	YEM
kMandarin	rǎn
kMatthews	3067
kMojiJoho	MJ007303
kMorohashi	01509
kPhonetic	1570
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+19173+7.2.2 C+19173+13.2.2
kRSUnicode	13.2
kSemanticVariant	U+5189<kMatthews
kSMSZD2003Index	49.19
kTotalStrokes	4
kXHC1983	0955.011:rǎn