U+5983 "妃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
妃
U+5983 "妃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily denotes a consort, imperial concubine, or a high-ranking female spouse of a monarch in East Asian historical contexts, particularly in China, Japan, and Korea. Its traditional meaning carries connotations of nobility and hierarchical marital status within royal courts, where it was used to distinguish specific ranks of wives or partners of an emperor or king, often below the empress in status. In modern usage, the character appears in classical literature, historical texts, and compound words such as "王妃" (imperial consort) or "貴妃" (noble consort), preserving its regal and formal associations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5983 |
| 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 | 妃 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 妃 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xA6 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5983 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005983 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5983 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A66D |
| kCCCII | 213946 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-476E |
| kCNS1992 | 1-476E |
| kCangjie | VSU |
| kCantonese | fei1 |
| kCihaiT | 379.301 |
| kCowles | 751 |
| kDefinition | wife, spouse; imperial concubine |
| kEACC | 213946 |
| kFanqie | 芳非 滂佩 |
| kFenn | 311H |
| kFennIndex | 133.03 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4741.7 |
| kGB0 | 6990 |
| kGB1 | 6990 |
| kGSR | 0581a 0953f |
| kHangul | 비:0E |
| kHanYu | 21027.110 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 21027.110:fēi,pèi |
| kHKGlyph | 0870 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21027.110 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0255.220 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-657A |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A66D |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-485E |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-DFCE |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5D65 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-476E |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-5161 |
| kJapanese | ヒ ハイ イ ヘ きさき |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:580 |
| kJapaneseKun | KISAKI |
| kJapaneseOn | HI HAI |
| kJis0 | 4062 |
| kKangXi | 0255.220 |
| kKorean | PI PAY |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 1173 |
| kMandarin | fēi |
| kMatthews | 1838 |
| kMeyerWempe | 507a |
| kMojiJoho | MJ009560 MJ009560:E0101 MJ009561:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 06061 06061:E0101 |
| kNelson | 1188 |
| kPhonetic | 597 767 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+3442+38.3.3 C+3442+49.3.3 |
| kRSUnicode | 38.3 |
| kSBGY | 064.17 388.06 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 152.03 191.09 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | fēi粵fei1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 1173 |
| kTang | *piəi |
| kTGHZ2013 | 094.030:fēi |
| kTotalStrokes | 6 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | phi |
| kXerox | 260:111 |
| kXHC1983 | 0314.010:fēi |