U+5A9D "媝" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+5A9D "媝" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and obscure Chinese character that appears in historical or classical texts, though its precise meaning and modern usage remain largely undocumented in common dictionaries. It belongs to a collection of over 70,000 East Asian ideographs standardized in Unicode, representing logographic writing systems historically used in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese. Composed of a radical and phonetic component, "媝" likely follows the typical structure of a semantic element indicating a woman (the radical "女") combined with a sound element, suggesting it may once have denoted a specific term or name in ancient literature. Due to its rarity, this character is primarily of interest to linguists, historians, and digital text specialists working with obscure or archaic script.

General Properties

Code Point U+5A9D
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 媝
HTML Hex Encoding 媝
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0xAA 0x9D
UTF-16 Encoding 0x5A9D
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00005A9D
C/C++/Java Escape \u5a9d

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 D8CF
kCCCII 217C2F
kCNS1986 2-3B33
kCNS1992 2-3B33
kCangjie HFV
kCantonese cau1
kFourCornerCode 2940.4
kGB5 3222
kHanYu 21066.080
kHanyuPinyin 21066.080:qiū
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 21066.080
kIRGKangXi 0267.160
kIRG_GSource G5-4036
kIRG_HSource HB2-D8CF
kIRG_JSource JMJ-009854
kIRG_KSource K2-2C7B
kIRG_TSource T2-3B33
kJapanese シュウ シュ
kJapaneseOn SHUU SHU
kKangXi 0267.160
kMandarin qiū
kMojiJoho MJ009854
kMorohashi 06521
kRSUnicode 38.9
kTotalStrokes 12
kUnihanCore2020 HMT