U+534D "卍" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

卍

U+534D "卍" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a glyph representing a sacred and ancient symbol known as the manji in East Asian cultures, where it has been used for millennia in Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism to denote good fortune, prosperity, and the eternal cycle of life. In Chinese, it is read as "wan" and signifies "ten thousand" or "infinity," often appearing on temples and religious artifacts as an auspicious emblem. However, in Western contexts, this symbol is frequently conflated with the Nazi swastika due to its identical shape, despite the latter being rotated 45 degrees and used for entirely different political and hateful purposes. The character remains a legitimate part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideograph set, and its meaning depends entirely on cultural and contextual interpretation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+534D
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	卍
HTML Hex Encoding	卍
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x8D 0x8D
UTF-16 Encoding	0x534D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000534D
C/C++/Java Escape	\u534d

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

kAlternateTotalStrokes	6:J
kBigFive	C9C3
kCCCII	216D42
kCNS1986	2-2223
kCNS1992	2-2223
kCangjie	NX
kCantonese	maan6
kCowles	2582
kDaeJaweon	0356.080
kDefinition	swastika, one of the auspicious signs recognized (e.g. in Chinese Tathagata Buddhism) as being on the chest of Buddha (and variously seen in statuary on the chest, soles of the feet, or palms of the hands)
kEACC	216D42
kFennIndex	593.03
kFourCornerCode	1221.7
kGB5	1623
kHangul	만:0N
kHanYu	10051.150
kIICore	AJKP
kIRGDaeJaweon	0356.080
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10051.150
kIRGKangXi	0156.210
kIRG_GSource	G5-3037
kIRG_HSource	HB2-C9C3
kIRG_JSource	J0-5244
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-DABA
kIRG_KSource	K0-5833
kIRG_TSource	T2-2223
kJapanese	マンバンまんじ
kKoreanName	2015
kJapaneseKun	MANJI
kJapaneseOn	BAN MAN
kJis0	5036
kKangXi	0156.210
kKorean	MAN
kMandarin	wàn
kMatthews	7032
kMeyerWempe	1747b
kMojiJoho	MJ007848
kMorohashi	02724
kNelson	0079
kPhonetic	865
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+4313+24.2.4
kRSUnicode	24.4
kSemanticVariant	U+4E07<kFenn U+5350 U+842C<kFenn
kTaiwanTelegraph	0591
kTotalStrokes	4
kUnihanCore2020	HJKMPT
kXerox	265:322