U+5A76 "婶" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+5A76 "婶" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "aunt" or specifically refers to the wife of one's father's younger brother, functioning as a familial term of address in East Asian cultures. It is composed of the radical "女" (woman) on the left, indicating its connection to female relationships, and the phonetic component "审" on the right, which influences its pronunciation. In Mandarin Chinese, it is read as "shěn" and is commonly used in formal and informal contexts to denote a respected older female relative by marriage. This character is part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block, which encompasses characters from Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese scripts that share common historical and linguistic roots.

General Properties

Code Point U+5A76
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 婶
HTML Hex Encoding 婶
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0xA9 0xB6
UTF-16 Encoding 0x5A76
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00005A76
C/C++/Java Escape \u5a76

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 273A4B
kCangjie VJLL
kCantonese sam2
kDefinition wife of father's younger brother
kEACC 273A4B
kFourCornerCode 4345
kGB0 4184
kHanYu 21061.140
kHanyuPinlu shěn(172) shen(66)
kIICore AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 21061.140
kIRGKangXi 0265.281
kIRG_GSource G0-4974
kTGH 2013:2482
kKangXi 0265.281
kMainlandTelegraph 1306
kMandarin shěn
kRSUnicode 38.8
kSMSZD2003Index 158.16
kTGHZ2013 331.140:shěn
kTotalStrokes 11
kTraditionalVariant "嬸" U+5B38 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 1021.050:shěn