U+5932 "夲" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

夲

U+5932 "夲" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that has two primary meanings in classical and modern contexts. Historically, it is an alternate or variant form of the character "本" (běn), which commonly means "root," "origin," or "foundation," and it appears in some ancient texts with that sense. Additionally, "夲" can represent the word "tāo," meaning to advance or move forward, as found in the Han dynasty dictionary "Shuowen Jiezi," which defines it as "to advance rapidly" (进趣也). In modern usage, it is far less common than its counterpart and is primarily encountered in specialized linguistic or historical studies rather than in everyday Chinese writing.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5932
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	夲
HTML Hex Encoding	夲
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0xA4 0xB2
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5932
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005932
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5932

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	334369
kCNS1986	E-2237
kCNS1992	3-2237
kCangjie	KJ
kCantonese	tou1
kCihaiT	368.202
kDaeJaweon	0509.010
kDefinition	advance quickly; to go back and forth; origin, source
kEACC	334369
kFanqie	土刀布忖
kFourCornerCode	4040.3
kGB5	2312
kHangul	도:N
kHanYu	10524.040
kHanyuPinyin	10524.040:tāo,běn
kIRGDaeJaweon	0509.010
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10524.040
kIRGKangXi	0249.100
kIRG_GSource	G5-372C
kIRG_HSource	H-895F
kIRG_JSource	J0-5471
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-3CA0
kIRG_TSource	T3-2237
kJapanese	トウホンもと
kKoreanName	2015
kJapaneseKun	SUSUMU
kJapaneseOn	TOU HON
kJis0	5281
kKangXi	0249.100
kMandarin	tāo
kMojiJoho	MJ009463
kMorohashi	05845
kPhonetic	1088
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+4546+24.2.3 C+4546+37.3.2
kRSUnicode	37.2
kSBGY	156.34
kTotalStrokes	5
kUnihanCore2020	HJ