U+51C1 "凁" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+51C1 "凁" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a relatively rare Chinese character that originally refers to the act of freezing or congealing, often associated with cold temperatures causing liquids or substances to solidify. It is composed of the radical for ice or cold, 冫 (bīng), on the left, and the phonetic component 束 (shù, meaning "to bind" or "bundle") on the right, which suggests the idea of something being bound or solidified by cold. In classical contexts, this character appears in descriptions of freezing weather or the solidification of water, though it is seldom used in modern standard Chinese writing, having largely been replaced by more common terms like 冻 (dòng). As a component of the CJK Unified Ideographs block, it represents a historical linguistic artifact from the ancient East Asian lexicon, primarily preserved in dictionaries or classical texts rather than everyday language.

General Properties

Code Point U+51C1
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 凁
HTML Hex Encoding 凁
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0x87 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding 0x51C1
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000051C1
C/C++/Java Escape \u51c1

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 236636
kCNS1986 E-2B3B
kCNS1992 3-2B3B
kCangjie IMDL
kCantonese sau1
kDaeJaweon 0296.150
kGB3 1861
kHanYu 10297.170
kIRGDaeJaweon 0296.150
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10297.170
kIRGKangXi 0132.280
kIRG_GSource G3-325D
kIRG_JSource JMJ-007382
kIRG_KSource K2-2441
kIRG_TSource T3-2B3B
kJapanese ソウ シュ
kKangXi 0132.280
kKorean SWU
kMandarin sōu
kMojiJoho MJ007382
kMorohashi 01650
kPhonetic 309*
kRSUnicode 15.7
kTotalStrokes 9