U+5912 "夒" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+5912 "夒" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare or obsolete Chinese character that originally depicted a type of ancient monkey or ape, often identified with a mythical creature known for its long arms and ability to climb. Its structure combines the radical for "claw" or "hand" with elements suggesting movement or animal form, and it appears in early Chinese texts such as the Shuowen Jiezi dictionary, where it is referenced in the context of legendary beasts or as a phonetic component in later characters. Due to its obscurity, the character is seldom used in modern Chinese writing and is primarily of interest to paleographers and linguists studying the evolution of script.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5912
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	夒
HTML Hex Encoding	夒
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0xA4 0x92
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5912
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005912
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5912

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	F1F9
kCCCII	21787B
kCNS1986	2-6545
kCNS1992	2-6545
kCangjie	MCHE
kCantonese	nou4
kCihaiT	336.301
kDefinition	a kind of monkey, macaque
kFourCornerCode	1040.7
kGB3	2624
kHanYu	20871.230
kHanyuPinyin	20871.230:náo
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	20871.230
kIRGKangXi	0245.280
kIRG_GSource	G3-3A38
kIRG_HSource	HB2-F1F9
kIRG_JSource	J1-3863
kIRG_KSource	K2-2B4C
kIRG_TSource	T2-6545
kJapanese	ドウ ノウ おおざる
kJapaneseKun	MEZARU
kJapaneseOn	DOU NOU
kJis1	2467
kKangXi	0245.280
kMandarin	náo
kMojiJoho	MJ009424 MJ009424:E0101 MJ009423:E0102
kMorohashi	05741:E0102
kPhonetic	721A*
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+21372+35.3.16
kRSUnicode	35.16
kSMSZD2003Index	144.18 5.09
kSMSZD2003Readings	náo粵nou4
kTotalStrokes	19
kUnihanCore2020	HMT
kXHC1983	0819.040:náo