U+56AE "嚮" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
嚮
U+56AE "嚮" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that primarily means "to guide," "to lead," or "to direct," often carrying connotations of orientation or facing a certain direction, as in the word "方向" (direction). It is also used in classical texts to denote "previously" or "formerly," and appears in compound terms like "嚮往" (to yearn for or look forward to something). Structurally, it belongs to the radical "口" (mouth) and is composed of additional strokes that reflect its historical usage in literary and formal contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+56AE |
| 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 | 嚮 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 嚮 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x9A 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x56AE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000056AE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u56ae |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kAlternateTotalStrokes | 19:J |
| kBigFive | C251 |
| kCCCII | 213755 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-763D |
| kCNS1992 | 1-763D |
| kCangjie | VLHBR |
| kCantonese | hoeng3 |
| kCihaiT | 293.201 |
| kCowles | 1051 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0436.170 |
| kDefinition | guide, direct; incline to, favor |
| kEACC | 453755 |
| kFanqie | 許兩 許亮 |
| kFenn | 579G |
| kFennIndex | 169.09 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2722.7 |
| kGB1 | 8885 |
| kGradeLevel | 5 |
| kGSR | 0714i |
| kHangul | 향:0N |
| kHanYu | 10698.080 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10698.080:xiàng,xiǎng |
| kHKGlyph | 0703 |
| kIICore | ATHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0436.170 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10698.080 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0213.380 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-7875 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C251 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-536C |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F3A4 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-7A3F |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-763D |
| kJapanese | キョウ コウ さきに むかう |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | MUKAU SAKINI |
| kJapaneseOn | KOU KYOU |
| kJis0 | 5176 |
| kKangXi | 0213.380 |
| kKarlgren | 139 |
| kKorean | HYANG |
| kMandarin | xiàng |
| kMatthews | 2561 |
| kMeyerWempe | 712a |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008764 MJ008764:E0104 MJ008765:E0105 MJ008766:E0106 MJ008767:E0107 |
| kMorohashi | 04565:E0105 |
| kNelson | 1013 |
| kPhonetic | 463 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+4447+30.3.16 V+7985+30.3.16 V+20094+30.3.14 V+20095+30.3.16 |
| kRSUnicode | 30.16 |
| kSBGY | 311.45 425.35 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "向" U+5411 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 121.15 122.03 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | xiàng粵hoeng3 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0915 |
| kTotalStrokes | 17 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kXerox | 257:356 |
| kXHC1983 | 1260.031:xiàng |