U+540D "名" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
名
U+540D "名" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a fundamental East Asian logogram widely used in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean to convey the concept of "name," "fame," or "reputation." Historically, its composition combines the radical for "mouth" (口) with the component for "evening" or "dusk" (夕), which some scholars interpret as a visual metaphor for identifying oneself or one's family in the dim light of evening. In modern usage, it appears in words like "名字" (mingzi meaning name) in Mandarin, and "有名" (yuumei meaning famous) in Japanese, highlighting its role in expressing identity, recognition, and social standing across multiple cultures.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+540D |
| 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 | 名 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 名 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x90 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x540D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000540D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u540d |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A657 |
| kCCCII | 213545 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4758 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4758 |
| kCangjie | NIR |
| kCantonese | ming4 |
| kCihaiT | 254.201 |
| kCowles | 2669 2695 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0391.020 |
| kDefinition | name, rank, title, position |
| kEACC | 213545 |
| kFanqie | 武并 |
| kFenn | 270B |
| kFennIndex | 344.05 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2760.0 |
| kGB0 | 3591 |
| kGB1 | 3591 |
| kGradeLevel | 1 |
| kGSR | 0826a |
| kHangul | 명:0E |
| kHanYu | 10582.060 |
| kHanyuPinlu | míng(767) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10582.060:míng,mìng |
| kHKGlyph | 0501 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0391.020 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10582.060 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0175.090 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-437B |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A657 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4C3E |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-DAF0 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5923 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4758 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-4E49 |
| kJapanese | メイ ミョウ ベイ な なづける なのる |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:505 |
| kJapaneseKun | NA NANORU NAZUKERU |
| kJapaneseOn | MEI MYOU |
| kJis0 | 4430 |
| kKangXi | 0175.090 |
| kKorean | MYENG |
| kLau | 2133 2143 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0682 |
| kMandarin | míng |
| kMatthews | 4524 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1814 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008068 |
| kMorohashi | 03297 |
| kNelson | 1170 |
| kPhonetic | 901 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+3786+30.3.3 C+3786+36.3.3 |
| kRSUnicode | 30.3 |
| kSBGY | 192.29 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 91.01 145.04 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | míng粵ming4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0682 |
| kTang | *miæng |
| kTGHZ2013 | 254.110:míng |
| kTotalStrokes | 6 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | danh |
| kXerox | 241:324 |
| kXHC1983 | 0795.030:míng |