U+5923 "夣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+5923 "夣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and archaic Chinese character primarily used in classical texts, where it represents the concept of a dream, often conveying a sense of haziness or illusion. This ideograph is composed of components related to evening or night and a variation of the character for dream, reflecting its semantic connection to the imagery and experience of dreaming. While not commonly used in modern standard Chinese, it occasionally appears in historical literature or as a variant form of the more common character 夢.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5923
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	夣
HTML Hex Encoding	夣
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0xA4 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5923
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005923
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5923

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	2D3924
kCNS1986	E-405F
kCNS1992	3-405F
kCangjie	YIWN
kCantonese	mung6
kDefinition	a dream; to dream visionary; stupid
kHanYu	20866.080
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	20866.080
kIRGKangXi	0247.170
kIRG_GSource	GE-354B
kIRG_JSource	J1-3869
kIRG_TSource	T3-405F
kIRG_VSource	V2-735B
kJapanese	ム ボウ ゆめ
kJapaneseKun	YUME
kJapaneseOn	BOU MU
kJis1	2473
kKangXi	0247.170
kMandarin	mèng
kMatthews	4433
kMojiJoho	MJ009448
kMorohashi	05803
kPhonetic	934*
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+19304+36.3.11
kRSUnicode	36.11
kSemanticVariant	U+5922<kMatthews
kTotalStrokes	14