U+51E1 "凡" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

凡

U+51E1 "凡" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a common Chinese character that generally conveys meanings of "ordinary," "commonplace," "mundane," or "everyday," and it can also refer to the concept of "all" or "every" in certain contexts, as seen in words like "凡事" (all matters). In its composition, the character is a simple two-stroke ideograph that historically derived from a depiction of a square or a standard, symbolizing a norm or general category. It appears frequently in both classical and modern Chinese texts, as well as in Japanese and Korean writing, and it is notably used in Buddhist terminology to denote the mundane world versus the sacred. Overall, this character represents the idea of the typical or unexceptional, serving as a fundamental building block in East Asian languages.

General Properties

Code Point	U+51E1
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	凡
HTML Hex Encoding	凡
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x87 0xA1
UTF-16 Encoding	0x51E1
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000051E1
C/C++/Java Escape	\u51e1

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	A45A
kCCCII	213036
kCNS1986	1-443B
kCNS1992	1-443B
kCangjie	HNI
kCantonese	faan4
kCihaiT	170.402
kCowles	667
kDaeJaweon	0299.100
kDefinition	all, any, every; ordinary, common
kEACC	213036
kFanqie	符咸
kFenn	397B
kFennIndex	128.06
kFourCornerCode	7721.0
kGB0	2318
kGB1	2318
kGradeLevel	4
kGSR	0625a
kHangul	범:0E
kHanYu	10276.030
kHanyuPinlu	fán(135)
kHanyuPinyin	10276.030:fán
kHKGlyph	0023
kIICore	AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	0299.100
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10276.030
kIRGKangXi	0134.020
kIRG_GSource	G0-3732
kIRG_HSource	HB1-A45A
kIRG_JSource	J0-4B5E
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-DDD8
kIRG_KSource	K0-5B6D
kIRG_TSource	T1-443B
kIRG_VSource	V1-4C69
kJapanese	ボンハンおよそすべて
kJoyoKanji	2010
kKoreanEducationHanja	2007
kTGH	2013:50
kJapaneseKun	SUBETE OYOSO
kJapaneseOn	BON HAN
kJis0	4362
kKangXi	0134.020
kKarlgren	18
kKorean	PEM
kLau	651
kMainlandTelegraph	0416
kMandarin	fán
kMatthews	1771
kMeyerWempe	453
kMojiJoho	MJ007417
kMorohashi	01739
kNelson	0654
kPhonetic	342
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+3724+3.1.2 C+3724+16.2.1 V+14041+1.1.2 V+14041+16.2.1
kRSUnicode	16.1
kSBGY	231.32
kSemanticVariant	U+51E2<kMatthews,kMeyerWempe U+51E3<kMatthews
kSMSZD2003Index	54.02 6.13
kSMSZD2003Readings	fán粵faan4
kTaiwanTelegraph	0416
kTang	bhiæm
kTGHZ2013	091.060:fán
kTotalStrokes	3
kUnihanCore2020	GHJKMPT
kVietnamese	phàm
kXerox	245:146
kXHC1983	0300.120:fán