U+56E1 "囡" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

囡

U+56E1 "囡" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character traditionally used to refer to a young child, particularly a little girl, or daughter. It is composed of the radical "囗" meaning enclosure or wall, surrounding the component "女" meaning woman or female, which together visually suggest a girl within the home or a protected space. The character appears in both Simplified and Traditional Chinese writing systems and carries affectionate or endearing connotations in common usage, such as in terms like "囡囡" to refer to a beloved little girl. Its pronunciation varies across dialects, most commonly as "nān" in Mandarin.

General Properties

Code Point	U+56E1
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	囡
HTML Hex Encoding	囡
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x9B 0xA1
UTF-16 Encoding	0x56E1
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000056E1
C/C++/Java Escape	\u56e1

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	C9C6
kCCCII	21736F
kCNS1986	2-2226
kCNS1992	2-2226
kCangjie	WV
kCantonese	naam4
kCihaiT	302.203
kDaeJaweon	0444.050
kDefinition	one's daughter; to filch; to secrete
kEACC	21736F
kFourCornerCode	6040.4
kGB0	6479
kGB1	6479
kHanYu	10713.080
kHanyuPinyin	10713.080:nān,niè
kIICore	BGTHM
kIRGDaeJaweon	0444.050
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10713.080
kIRGKangXi	0217.060
kIRG_GSource	G0-606F
kIRG_HSource	HB2-C9C6
kIRG_JSource	J1-3676
kIRG_KSource	K2-294C
kIRG_TSource	T2-2226
kJapanese	ジュウニュウ
kTGH	2013:3596
kJapaneseOn	JUU NOU NAN
kJis1	2286
kKangXi	0217.060
kMainlandTelegraph	8189
kMandarin	nān
kMatthews	4618
kMojiJoho	MJ008823
kMorohashi	04696
kPhonetic	990
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+19271+31.3.3 C+19271+38.3.3
kRSUnicode	31.3
kSMSZD2003Index	124.02 152.08
kSMSZD2003Readings	nān粵naam4
kTaiwanTelegraph	8210
kTGHZ2013	261.150:nān
kTotalStrokes	6
kUnihanCore2020	GHMT
kXerox	270:261
kXHC1983	0815.040:nān