U+5909 "変" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

変

U+5909 "変" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a kanji character primarily used in Japanese and occasionally in Chinese contexts, representing the concept of "change," "alteration," or "strangeness." It is a simplified variant of the traditional Chinese character "變," and in Japanese, it frequently appears in words such as "変化" (henka, meaning change) and "変人" (henjin, meaning eccentric person). This character is composed of the radical "夊" (to go slowly or to drag) and the phonetic component "亦" (also), though its modern meaning has evolved to emphasize transformation or abnormality. As part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, it shares encoding space with characters from all three languages, reflecting its shared but regionally distinct usage. The character's strokes and structure are standardized for digital text, allowing it to be used in modern computing for representing this fundamental linguistic concept across East Asian writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5909
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	変
HTML Hex Encoding	変
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0xA4 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5909
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005909
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5909

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

kCNS1986	E-2B79
kCNS1992	3-2B79
kCangjie	YCHE
kCantonese	bin3
kDefinition	change, transform, alter; rebel
kEACC	4B594B
kFourCornerCode	0024.7 0040.7
kHanYu	20869.080
kIICore	AJ
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	20869.080
kIRGKangXi	0245.101
kIRG_GSource	GE-3545
kIRG_JSource	J0-4A51
kIRG_KSource	K2-2B47
kIRG_TSource	T3-2B79
kJapanese	ヘンかわるかえる
kJoyoKanji	2010
kJapaneseKun	KAWARU KAERU
kJapaneseOn	HEN
kJis0	4249
kKangXi	0245.101
kKorean	PYEN
kMandarin	biàn
kMojiJoho	MJ009412
kMorohashi	05703
kNelson	0306 1166
kPhonetic	833
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+3617+34.3.6 C+3617+35.3.6
kRSUnicode	35.6
kSemanticVariant	U+8B8A<kHanYu:T
kTotalStrokes	9
kUnihanCore2020	J