U+5987 "妇" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+5987 "妇" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents a married woman or wife, commonly used in modern Mandarin as part of the word "妇女" meaning woman or women. Its traditional form is "婦," which combines the radical for woman (女) with a phonetic component that originally related to sweeping, symbolizing a woman's domestic role in ancient society. This character carries cultural connotations of femininity and household duties, though its usage now simply denotes a female adult, especially in legal and social contexts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5987
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	妇
HTML Hex Encoding	妇
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0xA6 0x87
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5987
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005987
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5987

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	273A27
kCangjie	VSM
kCantonese	fu5
kDefinition	married women; woman; wife
kEACC	273A27
kFourCornerCode	4747
kGB0	2430
kHanYu	21027.100
kHanyuPinlu	fù(321) fu(28)
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	21027.100
kIRGKangXi	0256.041
kIRG_GSource	G0-383E
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-057291
kJapanese	フ おんな つま よめ
kTGH	2013:579
kKangXi	0256.041
kMainlandTelegraph	1244
kMandarin	fù
kMojiJoho	MJ057291
kRSUnicode	38.3
kSMSZD2003Index	152.07
kTGHZ2013	102.150:fù
kTotalStrokes	6
kTraditionalVariant	"婦" U+5A66 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0348.020:fù