U+5AAA "媪" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
媪
U+5AAA "媪" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used primarily in classical and literary contexts, where it denotes an elderly woman or a female elder, often with connotations of respect or affection, similar to the term "old lady" or "matron." It is composed of the radical "女" (woman) on the left and the phonetic component "昷" on the right, which together contribute to its meaning and pronunciation as "ǎo" in Mandarin. Although less common in modern everyday usage, it appears in historical texts, poetry, and compound terms like "老媪" (old woman), reflecting its role in describing age and gender in traditional Chinese writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5AAA |
| 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 | 媪 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 媪 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xAA 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5AAA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005AAA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5aaa |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 2D3A30 |
| kCNS1986 | E-3A79 |
| kCNS1992 | 3-3A79 |
| kCangjie | VABT |
| kCantonese | ou2 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0535.190 |
| kDefinition | old woman; lower-class woman |
| kEACC | 217C52 |
| kFanqie | 烏晧 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4641 |
| kGB0 | 7033 |
| kGB1 | 7033 |
| kHangul | 오:1 온:N |
| kHanYu | 21065.040 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 21065.040:ǎo,yǔn,wò |
| kHKGlyph | 0940 |
| kIICore | CG |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0535.190 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21065.040 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0267.361 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-6641 |
| kIRG_HSource | HD-5AAA |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-009868 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-3D99 |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-6829 |
| kIRG_MSource | MDH-5AAA |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-3A79 |
| kJapanese | オウ おうな |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:5320 |
| kJapaneseKun | OUNA |
| kJapaneseOn | OU |
| kKangXi | 0267.361 |
| kKorean | O |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 1264 |
| kMandarin | ǎo |
| kMojiJoho | MJ009868 |
| kMorohashi | 06565 |
| kPhonetic | 1440 |
| kRSUnicode | 38.9 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 159.07 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | ǎo粵ou2 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 005.130:ǎo |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "媼" U+5ABC CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GH |
| kXHC1983 | 0012.020:ǎo |