U+5A74 "婴" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
婴
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
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 |