U+5521 "唡" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+5521 "唡" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used primarily as a unit of weight, specifically representing a tael or a half-kilogram in certain regional contexts, often in Taiwan and Hong Kong for measuring goods like produce or precious metals. It is composed of the mouth radical on the left and the phonetic component "两" (liǎng) on the right, which itself means "two" or a weight unit. In modern usage, this character is less common in simplified Chinese, where "两" (liǎng) typically serves the same weight function, but it persists in traditional texts and specialized applications. The glyph's inclusion in the Unicode standard reflects its historical and practical importance in Chinese measurement systems, allowing for digital representation and exchange across platforms.

General Properties

Code Point U+5521
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 唡
HTML Hex Encoding 唡
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0x94 0xA1
UTF-16 Encoding 0x5521
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00005521
C/C++/Java Escape \u5521

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 277060
kCangjie RMOB
kCantonese loeng2
kDefinition ounce
kHanYu 10627.040
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10627.040
kIRGKangXi 0193.051
kIRG_GSource GT-5084
kIRG_TSource TF-2E4A
kJapaneseOn RYOU
kKangXi 0193.051
kMainlandTelegraph 5084
kMandarin liǎng
kPhonetic 799*
kRSUnicode 30.7
kSMSZD2003Index 105.16
kTotalStrokes 10
kTraditionalVariant "啢" U+5562 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kXHC1983 0709.020:liǎng 1384.100:yīng