U+5411 "向" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
向
U+5411 "向" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "direction," "toward," or "to face," and is used in both modern Mandarin and classical Chinese texts. It is composed of a radical on the left resembling a roof or covering, and a right component associated with a mouth or opening, together conveying the concept of turning toward or facing something. In addition to its literal sense, the character appears in common compound words like 方向 (fāngxiàng, meaning "direction") and 向往 (xiàngwǎng, meaning "to yearn for"), and it is also frequently employed as a preposition in written and spoken Chinese to indicate orientation or target.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5411 |
| 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 | 向 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 向 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x90 0x91 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5411 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005411 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5411 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A656 |
| kCCCII | 213549 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4757 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4757 |
| kCangjie | HBR |
| kCantonese | hoeng3 |
| kCihaiT | 256.301 |
| kCowles | 1053 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0393.040 |
| kDefinition | toward, direction, trend |
| kEACC | 273755 |
| kFanqie | 式亮 許亮 |
| kFenn | 579B |
| kFennIndex | 169.08 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2722.0 |
| kGB0 | 4782 |
| kGB1 | 4782 |
| kGradeLevel | 1 |
| kGSR | 0715a |
| kHangul | 향:0E |
| kHanYu | 10579.080 |
| kHanyuPinlu | xiàng(2542) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10579.080:xiàng |
| kHKGlyph | 0500 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0393.040 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10579.080 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0176.040 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4F72 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A656 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-387E |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F3A3 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-7A3E |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4757 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-4E4D |
| kJapanese | コウ キョウ ショウ むく むける むかう むこう さきに |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:480 |
| kJapaneseKun | MUKU MUKAU SAKINI |
| kJapaneseOn | KOU KYOU SHOU |
| kJis0 | 2494 |
| kKangXi | 0176.040 |
| kKarlgren | 137 |
| kKorean | HYANG SANG |
| kLau | 1170 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0686 |
| kMandarin | xiàng |
| kMatthews | 2549 |
| kMeyerWempe | 713 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008074 |
| kMorohashi | 03301 |
| kNelson | 0101 |
| kPhonetic | 466 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1970+30.3.3 |
| kRSUnicode | 30.3 |
| kSBGY | 425.05 425.28 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "向" U+5411 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 91.05 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | xiàng粵hoeng3 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0686 |
| kTang | *xiɑ̀ng |
| kTGHZ2013 | 401.170,401.180:xiàng |
| kTotalStrokes | 6 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "向" U+5411 CJK Unified Ideograph-# "嚮" U+56AE CJK Unified Ideograph-# "曏" U+66CF CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | hướng |
| kXerox | 241:371 |
| kXHC1983 | 1260.030:xiàng |