U+5A46 "婆" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

婆

U+5A46 "婆" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "old woman," "grandmother," or "matron," and it often appears in compound words related to elderly female figures or feminine roles in East Asian cultures. Its structure is a phono-semantic compound, combining the radical "女" (female) with a phonetic component, and it is frequently used in terms such as "老婆" (wife) and "外婆" (maternal grandmother) in Mandarin Chinese, as well as in Japanese and Korean contexts with similar meanings. This character is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideograph set, which encompasses logographic characters common across these languages, and it has a long history in classical texts and modern usage, often conveying respect or familiarity depending on the context.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5A46
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	婆
HTML Hex Encoding	婆
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0xA9 0x86
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5A46
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005A46
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5a46

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

kBigFive	B143
kCCCII	213A21
kCNS1986	1-5967
kCNS1992	1-5967
kCangjie	EEV
kCantonese	po4
kCihaiT	387.401
kCowles	3528
kDaeJaweon	0530.260
kDefinition	old woman; grandmother
kEACC	213A21
kFanqie	薄波
kFenn	537aC
kFennIndex	420.05
kFourCornerCode	3440.4
kGB0	3837
kGB1	3837
kGradeLevel	1
kGSR	0025q
kHangul	파:0N
kHanYu	21061.110
kHanyuPinlu	pó(76) po(66)
kHanyuPinyin	21061.110:pó
kHKGlyph	0926
kIICore	AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	0530.260
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	21061.110
kIRGKangXi	0264.060
kIRG_GSource	G0-4645
kIRG_HSource	HB1-B143
kIRG_JSource	J0-474C
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-F0EA
kIRG_KSource	K0-7768
kIRG_TSource	T1-5967
kIRG_VSource	V1-5226
kJapanese	バハばば
kJoyoKanji	2010
kKoreanName	2015
kTGH	2013:2435
kJapaneseKun	BABA
kJapaneseOn	BA
kJis0	3944
kKangXi	0264.060
kKorean	PHA
kLau	2546
kMainlandTelegraph	1237
kMandarin	pó
kMatthews	5347
kMeyerWempe	2443
kMojiJoho	MJ009761
kMorohashi	06390
kNelson	1234
kPhonetic	1075
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+3330+38.3.8
kRSUnicode	38.8
kSBGY	162.29
kSMSZD2003Index	157.17
kSMSZD2003Readings	pó粵po4
kTaiwanTelegraph	1237
kTang	bhɑ
kTGHZ2013	287.020:pó
kTotalStrokes	11
kUnihanCore2020	GHJKMPT
kVietnamese	bà
kXerox	246:324
kXHC1983	0884.100:pó