U+5916 "外" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
外
U+5916 "外" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "outside," "external," or "foreign," and it is commonly used in East Asian languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Composed of the radical for "evening" or "night" combined with another element, it visually suggests something beyond a boundary or limit. This character appears in everyday vocabulary, such as 外面 (wàimiàn) meaning "outside," and 外国 (wàiguó) meaning "foreign country," and it also forms part of compound words in technical and historical contexts, like 外戚 (wàiqī) in historical terms for the emperor's maternal relatives.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5916 |
| 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 | 外 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 外 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xA4 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5916 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005916 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5916 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A57E |
| kCCCII | 21387B |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4640 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4640 |
| kCangjie | NIY |
| kCantonese | ngoi6 |
| kCihaiT | 336.402 |
| kCowles | 3070 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0487.050 |
| kDefinition | out, outside, external; foreign |
| kEACC | 21387B |
| kFanqie | 五會 |
| kFenn | 267A |
| kFennIndex | 590.06 591.01 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2320.0 |
| kGB0 | 4566 |
| kGB1 | 4566 |
| kGradeLevel | 1 |
| kGSR | 0322a |
| kHangul | 외:0E |
| kHanYu | 20860.010 |
| kHanyuPinlu | wài(2233) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 20860.010:wài |
| kHKGlyph | 0828 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0487.050 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 20860.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0246.020 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4D62 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A57E |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3330 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-FDBB |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6862 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4640 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-5142 |
| kJapanese | ガイ ゲ ウイ ガツ ガチ そと ほか はずす はずれる |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:293 |
| kJapaneseKun | SOTO HOKA HAZUSU |
| kJapaneseOn | GAI GE |
| kJis0 | 1916 |
| kKangXi | 0246.020 |
| kKorean | OY |
| kLau | 2360 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 1120 |
| kMandarin | wài |
| kMatthews | 7001 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2066 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ009431 MJ009431:E0101 MJ009432:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 05750 05750:E0101 |
| kNelson | 1168 |
| kPhonetic | 170 970 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1422+36.3.2 |
| kRSUnicode | 36.2 |
| kSBGY | 382.25 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 145.01 76.14 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | wài粵ngoi6 |
| kSpecializedSemanticVariant | U+8200<kFenn |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 1120 |
| kTang | *nguɑ̀i |
| kTGHZ2013 | 378.020:wài |
| kTotalStrokes | 5 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | ngoại |
| kXerox | 241:264 |
| kXHC1983 | 1178.020:wài |