U+5AA1 "媡" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+5AA1 "媡" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare or archaic Chinese character that belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) Unified Ideographs block, representing a logogram used in classical or historical texts rather than modern standard usage. Its exact meaning and pronunciation may vary depending on the specific linguistic and historical context, but it is generally understood as a compound character combining the radical for "woman" (女) with a phonetic component, often associated with concepts like connection or tying, as suggested by its occasional gloss in dictionaries describing it as a variant form of other characters meaning "to link" or "to join." This character exemplifies the extensive and nuanced system of CJK ideographs, where many lesser-known characters preserve specialized or obsolete meanings that require careful research into ancient documents or specialized lexicons for full comprehension.

General Properties

Code Point U+5AA1
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 媡
HTML Hex Encoding 媡
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0xAA 0xA1
UTF-16 Encoding 0x5AA1
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00005AA1
C/C++/Java Escape \u5aa1

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 237A31
kCNS1986 E-3A5A
kCNS1992 3-3A5A
kCangjie VDWF
kCantonese lin6
kHanYu 21064.080
kHanyuPinyin 21064.080:liàn
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 21064.080
kIRGKangXi 0267.210
kIRG_GSource GE-362B
kIRG_HSource H-97B7
kIRG_JSource JMJ-009858
kIRG_TSource T3-3A5A
kJapanese レン
kKangXi 0267.210
kMandarin liàn
kMojiJoho MJ009858
kMorohashi 06526
kPhonetic 549*
kRSUnicode 38.9
kTotalStrokes 12
kUnihanCore2020 H