U+5AA8 "媨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+5AA8 "媨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used in historical and classical texts, belonging to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideograph block. Its primary meaning relates to an older or worn-out woman, often carrying a pejorative connotation of being aged or decrepit, though its usage has largely faded from modern everyday language. This character is composed of the radical 女 (woman) and the phonetic component 酉 (you), reflecting a typical logographic structure in Chinese writing.

General Properties

Code Point U+5AA8
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 媨
HTML Hex Encoding 媨
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0xAA 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding 0x5AA8
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00005AA8
C/C++/Java Escape \u5aa8

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 217B66
kCNS1986 E-3A56
kCNS1992 3-3A56
kCangjie VTCW
kCantonese cuk1
kDaeJaweon 0535.080
kFanqie 即救
kGB3 2931
kHanYu 21067.080
kIRGDaeJaweon 0535.080
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 21067.080
kIRGKangXi 0267.350
kIRG_GSource G3-3D3F
kIRG_JSource JMJ-009866
kIRG_TSource T3-3A56
kJapanese シュク シュウ ジュ ユウ ユ シュ
kKangXi 0267.350
kMandarin
kMojiJoho MJ009866
kMorohashi 06540
kPhonetic 1513A*
kRSUnicode 38.9
kSBGY 436.31
kTotalStrokes 12