U+5973 "女" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
女
U+5973 "女" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a logogram representing the concept of "woman" or "female" in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) writing systems. This character, pronounced as "nǚ" in Mandarin, "onna" in Japanese, and "nyeo" in Korean, originated from ancient pictographs depicting a kneeling female figure with folded hands. It serves as a fundamental radical in many other characters, such as 好 (good, combining woman and child) and 妹 (younger sister), and carries deep cultural significance in East Asian languages, often linked to themes of femininity, motherhood, and social roles throughout history.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5973 |
| 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 | 女 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 女 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xA5 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5973 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005973 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5973 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A46B |
| kCCCII | 213942 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-444C |
| kCNS1992 | 1-444C |
| kCangjie | V |
| kCantonese | neoi5 |
| kCihaiT | 376.102 |
| kCowles | 2949 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0516.190 |
| kDefinition | woman, girl; feminine; Kangxi radical 38; 10th lunar mansion, determinative star ε Aquarii (Albali) |
| kEACC | 213942 |
| kFanqie | 尼吕 尼據 |
| kFenn | 552A |
| kFennIndex | 369.02 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4040.0 |
| kGB0 | 3714 |
| kGB1 | 3714 |
| kGradeLevel | 1 |
| kGSR | 0094a |
| kHangul | 녀:0E 여:0 |
| kHanYu | 21023.230 |
| kHanyuPinlu | nǚ(1129) nü(37) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 21023.230:nǚ,nǜ,rǔ |
| kHDZRadBreak | ⼥[U+2F25]:21023.230 |
| kHKGlyph | 0865 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0516.190 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21023.230 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0254.220 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-452E |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A46B |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3D77 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-D4E5 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5233 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-444C |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-515B |
| kJapanese | ジョ ニョ ニョウ おんな め むすめ なんじ めあわせる |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:67 |
| kJapaneseKun | ONNA ME MUSUME |
| kJapaneseOn | JO NYO NYOU |
| kJis0 | 2987 |
| kKangXi | 0254.220 |
| kKorean | NYE |
| kLau | 2408 2409 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 1166 |
| kMandarin | nǚ |
| kMatthews | 4776 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2122 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ009543 |
| kMorohashi | 06036 |
| kNelson | 1185 |
| kPhonetic | 990 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2433+38.3.0 V+13828+38.3.0 |
| kRSUnicode | 38.0 |
| kSBGY | 258.01 363.35 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 151.08 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | nǚ粵neoi5 nǜ粵neoi6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 1166 |
| kTang | *niǔ *njiǔ |
| kTGHZ2013 | 270.160:nǚ |
| kTotalStrokes | 3 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | nữa |
| kXerox | 241:322 |
| kXHC1983 | 0842.010:nǚ |