U+5A74 "婴" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+5A74 "婴" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "infant" or "baby," often appearing in compound words like "婴儿" (yīng'ér) for baby or infant. Its structure combines the radical for "woman" (女) with components suggesting a necklace or ornament, historically referencing a baby wrapped in swaddling clothes or wearing a decorative pendant. This character is used in both Simplified and Traditional Chinese scripts, appearing in contexts related to childhood, maternity, and caregiving. It is encoded in the CJK Unified Ideographs block of the Unicode Standard, supporting digital text representation across East Asian languages.

General Properties

Code Point U+5A74
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 婴
HTML Hex Encoding 婴
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0xA9 0xB4
UTF-16 Encoding 0x5A74
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00005A74
C/C++/Java Escape \u5a74

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 273A4A
kCangjie BOV
kCantonese jing1
kDefinition baby, infant; bother
kEACC 273A4A
kFourCornerCode 7740
kGB0 5104
kHanYu 21059.020
kHanyuPinlu yīng(35)
kIICore AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 21059.020
kIRGKangXi 0265.281
kIRG_GSource G0-5324
kTGH 2013:2301
kKangXi 0265.281
kMainlandTelegraph 1305
kMandarin yīng
kRSUnicode 38.8
kSMSZD2003Index 158.14
kTGHZ2013 439.020:yīng
kTotalStrokes 11
kTraditionalVariant "嬰" U+5B30 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 1385.060:yīng