U+5AA3 "媣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+5AA3 "媣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and complex Chinese character that falls under the category of CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideographs, specifically representing a logographic symbol used in historical or classical texts. Its meaning is not commonly known in modern usage, but it is traditionally associated with the concept of "to dye" or "to color," often relating to the process of immersing textiles in dye, drawing from its radical components that include the "女" (woman) radical and a phonetic element suggesting a connection to liquids or immersion. This character is included in the Unicode standard to preserve and encode ancient or obscure characters for digital representation and scholarly study, though it sees little practical use in contemporary writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point U+5AA3
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 媣
HTML Hex Encoding 媣
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0xAA 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding 0x5AA3
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00005AA3
C/C++/Java Escape \u5aa3

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 217B5E
kCNS1986 E-3A57
kCNS1992 3-3A57
kCangjie XVEND
kCantonese gam1
kDaeJaweon 0534.210
kFanqie 古三
kGB3 2932
kHanYu 21069.020
kHanyuPinyin 21069.020:rǎn
kIRGDaeJaweon 0534.210
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 21069.020
kIRGKangXi 0267.230
kIRG_GSource G3-3D40
kIRG_JSource JMJ-009861
kIRG_TSource T3-3A57
kJapanese ゼン ネン カン コン
kKangXi 0267.230
kMandarin rǎn
kMojiJoho MJ009861
kMorohashi 06528
kPhonetic 1569*
kRSUnicode 38.9
kSBGY 224.06
kTotalStrokes 12