U+542B "含" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

含

U+542B "含" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that conveys the meanings of "to contain," "to include," or "to hold in the mouth," and is commonly used in classical and modern East Asian languages to indicate something that is encompassed within or implicitly understood. Its visual structure combines the radical for mouth (口) with the phonetic component "今," suggesting the action of keeping something inside, such as holding water in the mouth or containing a hidden feeling. In practical usage, it appears in words like "包含" meaning to include or "含量" referring to content or volume, and it carries a subtle connotation of inwardness or latent presence, making it a frequent component in discussions of meaning, emotion, and composition.

General Properties

Code Point	U+542B
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	含
HTML Hex Encoding	含
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x90 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding	0x542B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000542B
C/C++/Java Escape	\u542b

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	A774
kCCCII	213565
kCNS1986	1-4956
kCNS1992	1-4956
kCangjie	OINR
kCantonese	ham4
kCihaiT	258.202
kCowles	1152
kDaeJaweon	0395.190
kDefinition	hold in mouth; cherish; contain
kEACC	213565
kFanqie	胡男
kFenn	437D
kFennIndex	147.10 152.08
kFourCornerCode	8060.2
kGB0	2612
kGB1	2612
kGradeLevel	4
kGSR	0651l'
kHangul	함:0E
kHanYu	10592.010
kHanyuPinlu	hán(320)
kHanyuPinyin	10592.010:hán,hàn
kHKGlyph	0532
kIICore	AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	0395.190
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10592.010
kIRGKangXi	0178.140
kIRG_GSource	G0-3A2C
kIRG_HSource	HB1-A774
kIRG_JSource	J0-345E
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-F2DF
kIRG_KSource	K0-795F
kIRG_TSource	T1-4956
kIRG_VSource	V1-4E57
kJapanese	ガンカンゴンふくむふくめる
kJoyoKanji	2010
kKoreanEducationHanja	2007
kTGH	2013:800
kJapaneseKun	FUKUMU FUKUMERU
kJapaneseOn	GAN
kJis0	2062
kKangXi	0178.140
kKarlgren	62
kKorean	HAM
kLau	1122
kMainlandTelegraph	0698
kMandarin	hán
kMatthews	2017
kMeyerWempe	774
kMojiJoho	MJ008100 MJ008100:E0101 MJ057151:E0102
kMorohashi	03350 03350:E0101
kNelson	0402
kPhonetic	497 565
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+1562+30.3.4
kRSUnicode	30.4
kSBGY	222.07
kSMSZD2003Index	92.15 26.09
kSMSZD2003Readings	hán粵ham4
kSpecializedSemanticVariant	U+5505<kMeyerWempe
kTaiwanTelegraph	0698
kTang	*hom
kTGHZ2013	129.170:hán
kTotalStrokes	7
kUnihanCore2020	GHJKMPT
kVietnamese	hàm
kXerox	246:335
kXHC1983	0438.050:hán