U+5ABD "媽" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
媽
U+5ABD "媽" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character meaning "mother," composed of the radical for woman (女) on the left and the phonetic component 馬 (meaning horse, pronounced "ma") on the right, indicating its pronunciation in Mandarin as "mā." It is used in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean to refer to one's mother in a familiar or respectful manner, often appearing in compound words like "母親" (mǔqīn, mother) or as a direct term of address. The character reflects the cultural importance of maternal kinship in East Asian societies, and its simplified counterpart "妈" is widely used in modern Chinese writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5ABD |
| 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 | 媽 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 媽 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xAA 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5ABD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005ABD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5abd |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B6FD |
| kCCCII | 213A36 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6364 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6364 |
| kCangjie | VSQF |
| kCantonese | maa1 |
| kCihaiT | 390.504 |
| kCowles | 2553 2555 2566 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0535.400 |
| kDefinition | mother, mama |
| kEACC | 213A36 |
| kFanqie | 莫補 |
| kFenn | 255E |
| kFennIndex | 326.02 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4142.7 |
| kGB1 | 3472 |
| kGradeLevel | 1 |
| kHangul | 마:1N |
| kHanYu | 21070.120 |
| kHanyuPinlu | mā(1288) ma(719) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 21070.120:mā |
| kHKGlyph | 0947 |
| kIICore | ATJHM |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0535.400 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21070.120 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0268.210 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-4268 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B6FD |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-5540 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-3DA5 |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-5F75 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6364 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-522E |
| kJapanese | ボ マ モ はは |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | HAHA |
| kJapaneseOn | BO MO |
| kJis0 | 5332 |
| kKangXi | 0268.210 |
| kKorean | MA |
| kLau | 2035 2036 |
| kMandarin | mā |
| kMatthews | 4312 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1726 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ009886 |
| kMorohashi | 06590 |
| kNelson | 1242 |
| kPhonetic | 863 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+4591+38.3.10 C+4591+187.10.3 |
| kRSUnicode | 38.10 |
| kSBGY | 264.27 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "妈" U+5988 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 159.21 784.10 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | mā粵maa1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 1265 |
| kTotalStrokes | 13 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJMT |
| kVietnamese | má |
| kXerox | 242:143 |