U+5AB5 "媵" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
媵
U+5AB5 "媵" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a classical Chinese character meaning a concubine, specifically one who accompanied a bride as part of her dowry in ancient marriage customs, or more generally a maidservant or attendant. It is composed of the radical for woman (女) alongside phonetic components, reflecting its historical context in feudal China where such women were often sent to serve a noble family. While rarely used in modern Mandarin, it occasionally appears in literary, historical, or genealogical texts, and its existence in the Unicode standard helps preserve this nuanced aspect of ancient social structure for digital representation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5AB5 |
| 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 | 媵 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 媵 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xAA 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5AB5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005AB5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5ab5 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | DCF9 |
| kCCCII | 217C3E |
| kCNS1986 | 2-4240 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-4240 |
| kCangjie | BFQV |
| kCantonese | jing6 |
| kCihaiT | 390.104 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0535.290 |
| kDefinition | a maid who accompanies bride to her new home; to escort; a concubine |
| kEACC | 217C3E |
| kFanqie | 以證 實證 |
| kFourCornerCode | 7924.4 |
| kGB0 | 7584 |
| kGB1 | 7584 |
| kGSR | 0893k |
| kHangul | 잉:1N |
| kHanYu | 32099.020 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 32099.020:yìng,shèng |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0535.290 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 32099.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0268.070 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-6B74 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-DCF9 |
| kIRG_JSource | J14-2567 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-3DB7 |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-6A6E |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-4240 |
| kJapanese | ヨウ ショウ そいよめ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:5523 |
| kJIS0213 | 2,05,71 |
| kJapaneseKun | OKURU TSUKISOHI OKURIME OKURIBITO |
| kJapaneseOn | YOU |
| kJis1 | 2590 |
| kKangXi | 0268.070 |
| kKorean | ING |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 1262 |
| kMandarin | yìng |
| kMatthews | 7492 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ009875 MJ009875:E0101 MJ009876:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 06575 06575:E0101 |
| kPhonetic | 1208 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+17507+38.3.10 C+17507+74.4.9 |
| kRSUnicode | 38.10 |
| kSBGY | 432.44 432.50 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 159.19 301.07 559.10 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | yìng粵jing6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 1262 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 440.180:yìng |
| kTotalStrokes | 13 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHMT |
| kXerox | 274:171 |
| kXHC1983 | 1390.030:yìng |