U+5905 "夅" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+5905 "夅" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and archaic Chinese character that originates from ancient scripts, specifically representing a pictographic or ideographic concept related to "to go down" or "to descend," often associated with a reversed or inverted form of the character for "to go" or "foot." It is composed of a simple structure with two strokes, reflecting its early usage in classical texts such as the Shuowen Jiezi, an early Han dynasty dictionary, where it is defined as a variant or predecessor of the modern character "降" (jiàng, meaning to descend). Due to its antiquity and limited modern usage, it is rarely encountered in contemporary Chinese writing, but it remains included in the Unicode standard to support historical linguistic research and digital preservation of archaic forms.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5905
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	夅
HTML Hex Encoding	夅
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0xA4 0x85
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5905
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005905
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5905

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	217872
kCNS1986	E-2344
kCNS1992	3-2344
kCangjie	HEQ
kCantonese	gong3
kCihaiT	334.605
kDaeJaweon	0485.050
kDefinition	to descend; to come down from heaven. to send down
kFanqie	下江
kFennIndex	46.02
kGB5	2875
kHanYu	20868.040
kIRGDaeJaweon	0485.050
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	20868.040
kIRGKangXi	0244.200
kIRG_GSource	G5-3C6B
kIRG_HSource	H-89DE
kIRG_JSource	J14-2538
kIRG_KSource	K2-2B46
kIRG_TSource	T3-2344
kJapanese	コウ ふる
kJIS0213	2,05,24
kJapaneseKun	OORIRU OOROSU HUURU
kJapaneseOn	KOU
kJis1	2463
kKangXi	0244.200
kMandarin	jiàng
kMatthews	654
kMojiJoho	MJ009409 MJ009409:E0101 MJ009408:E0102
kMorohashi	05695:E0102
kPhonetic	659
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+17468+34.3.4
kRSUnicode	34.3
kSBGY	039.39
kSemanticVariant	U+964D<kMatthews
kSpecializedSemanticVariant	U+964D<kFenn
kTotalStrokes	6
kUnihanCore2020	H
kXerox	310:364