U+51AB "冫" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+51AB "冫" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is the radical known as the “ice radical” or “two dots water,” originating as a simplified form of the character for ice, 冰, and is used in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems. This two-stroke component typically appears on the left side of compound characters, conveying meanings related to cold, freezing, or low temperatures, such as in 冷 (cold) and 凍 (freeze). It is classified as Kangxi Radical 15 and serves as a fundamental building block in East Asian script for constructing ideographs associated with icy or frigid concepts.

General Properties

Code Point U+51AB
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 冫
HTML Hex Encoding 冫
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0x86 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding 0x51AB
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000051AB
C/C++/Java Escape \u51ab

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 216A23
kCangjie IM
kCantonese bing1
kCihaiT 167.103
kCowles 3303
kDaeJaweon 0294.110
kDefinition ice; Kangxi radical 15
kEACC 216A23
kFanqie 筆陵
kFenn 520K
kFennIndex 414.01
kFourCornerCode 3010.0
kGB0 5791
kGB1 5791
kGSR 0899a
kHanYu 10295.010
kHanyuPinyin 10295.010:bīng
kHDZRadBreak ⼎[U+2F0E]:10295.010
kIRGDaeJaweon 0294.110
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10295.010
kIRGKangXi 0131.150
kIRG_GSource G0-597B
kIRG_HSource H-C6C5
kIRG_JSource J0-5152
kIRG_KPSource KP1-3760
kIRG_KSource K2-2438
kIRG_TSource T1-272F
kJapanese ヒョウ にすい
kJapaneseKun KOORI
kJapaneseOn HYOU
kJis0 4950
kKangXi 0131.150
kKorean PING
kMainlandTelegraph 0391
kMandarin bīng
kMatthews 5283
kMeyerWempe 2373a
kMojiJoho MJ007357
kMorohashi 01607
kPhonetic 1051
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+4233+15.2.0
kRSUnicode 15.0
kSBGY 199.23
kSemanticVariant U+6C37<kMatthews U+51B0<kMatthews
kTaiwanTelegraph 0391
kTotalStrokes 2
kUnihanCore2020 GHJT
kXerox 324:043