U+5355 "单" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

单

U+5355 "单" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character with the primary meaning of "single," "simple," or "alone," and it is also commonly used as a surname in Chinese culture. In its simplified form, it appears as 单, while the traditional variant is 單; both forms are widely employed in modern Chinese writing and computing. The character is found in various compounds and words, such as 单位 (dānwèi) meaning "unit" and 简单 (jiǎndān) meaning "simple," reflecting its core semantic role in expressing concepts of singularity or straightforwardness. Its usage extends across multiple sinospere languages, including Japanese and Korean, where it carries similar meanings and is encoded under the same Unicode codepoint for digital text representation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5355
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	单
HTML Hex Encoding	单
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x8D 0x95
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5355
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005355
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5355

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	273668
kCNS1986	E-2763
kCNS1992	3-2763
kCangjie	CWJ
kCantonese	daan1
kCowles	4047
kDefinition	single, individual, only; lone
kEACC	273668
kFourCornerCode	8050
kGB0	2105
kHanYu	10246.030
kHanyuPinlu	dān(603)
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10246.030
kIRGKangXi	0157.041
kIRG_GSource	G0-3525
kIRG_TSource	T3-2763
kTGH	2013:1232
kJapaneseKun	HITOE
kJapaneseOn	TAN
kKangXi	0157.041
kKorean	TAN SEN
kMainlandTelegraph	0830
kMandarin	dān
kMatthews	6030
kMeyerWempe	2942
kMorohashi	02749
kPhonetic	1294
kRSUnicode	24.6
kSemanticVariant	U+55AE<kMatthews,kMeyerWempe
kSimplifiedVariant	"单" U+5355 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	75.07
kTGHZ2013	036.140:chán 064.090:dān 325.010:shàn
kTotalStrokes	8
kTraditionalVariant	"单" U+5355 CJK Unified Ideograph-# "單" U+55AE CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0117.100:chán 0207.100:dān 0999.090:shàn