U+5ABC "媼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
媼
U+5ABC "媼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "an old woman" or "a term of respect for a married woman," often used to refer to a mother or grandmother in classical and modern contexts. It is composed of the radical 女 meaning "woman" and a phonetic component on the right, and its traditional Chinese form is 媼, while the simplified form commonly encountered is 媪. This character appears in historical texts and literature, such as in the idiom 東施效顰 where it describes an elderly female figure, and it retains its respectful connotation in cultural references.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5ABC |
| 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 | 媼 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 媼 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xAA 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5ABC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005ABC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5abc |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B6FE |
| kCCCII | 213A30 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6365 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6365 |
| kCangjie | VWOT |
| kCantonese | ou2 |
| kCihaiT | 390.201 |
| kCowles | 3084 5025 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0535.380 |
| kDefinition | old woman; lower-class woman |
| kEACC | 213A30 |
| kFanqie | 烏晧 |
| kFenn | 606I |
| kFennIndex | 5.06 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4641.7 |
| kGSR | 1244e |
| kHangul | 온:1N |
| kHanYu | 21071.211 |
| kIICore | ATJHKM |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0535.380 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21071.211 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0268.190 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-362F |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B6FE |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-553C |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-3DB5 |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-683C |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6365 |
| kJapanese | オウ ウン オン オツ オチ おうな ばば |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | OUNA |
| kJapaneseOn | OU |
| kJis0 | 5328 |
| kKangXi | 0268.190 |
| kKorean | ON |
| kMandarin | ǎo |
| kMatthews | 51 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3752 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ009885 |
| kMorohashi | 06588 |
| kNelson | 1243 |
| kPhonetic | 1440 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+4587+38.3.10 |
| kRSUnicode | 38.10 |
| kSBGY | 303.35 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "媪" U+5AAA CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 160.06 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 1264 |
| kTotalStrokes | 13 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJMT |
| kXerox | 265:162 |