U+5AC3 "嫃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+5AC3 "嫃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that is rarely used in modern standard Mandarin but appears in classical or literary contexts, where it can function as a variant or alternative form of other characters, with potential meanings related to ancient personal names, descriptive terms, or phonetic loan usage. Its structure combines the radical 女 (nǚ, meaning "woman" or "female") on the left, suggesting a connection to femininity or gender, with a phonetic component on the right that hints at its pronunciation, though its specific semantic range is not widely documented in contemporary dictionaries. This character exemplifies the complexity of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideograph system, which seeks to encode historically and regionally diverse scripts under a single standard, preserving rare or obsolete glyphs for scholarly and digital preservation.

General Properties

Code Point U+5AC3
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 嫃
HTML Hex Encoding 嫃
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0xAB 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding 0x5AC3
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00005AC3
C/C++/Java Escape \u5ac3

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 217C44
kCNS1986 E-4067
kCNS1992 3-4067
kCangjie VJBC
kCantonese zan1
kGB5 3241
kHanYu 21072.140
kHanyuPinyin 21072.140:zhēn,zhěn
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 21072.140
kIRGKangXi 0268.350
kIRG_GSource G5-4049
kIRG_HSource H-90A7
kIRG_JSource JMJ-009896
kIRG_TSource T3-4067
kJapanese シン
kKangXi 0268.350
kMandarin zhēn
kMojiJoho MJ009896
kMorohashi 06604
kPhonetic 63*
kRSUnicode 38.10
kTotalStrokes 13
kUnihanCore2020 H