U+5AC4 "嫄" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
嫄
U+5AC4 "嫄" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (Hanzi) used primarily in classical and historical texts. Its meaning relates to a "spring" or "source of water," and it is notably recognized as the personal name of Jiang Yuan, the mother of the legendary figure Hou Ji in ancient Chinese mythology and history. In the context of the Classic of Poetry, she is celebrated as the ancestress of the Zhou dynasty. The character is composed of the radical for "woman" (女) on the left, paired with a phonetic component indicating its pronunciation, which is typically read as "yuán" in modern Mandarin.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5AC4 |
| 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 | 嫄 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 嫄 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xAB 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5AC4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005AC4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5ac4 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | DCF4 |
| kCCCII | 217C41 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-423B |
| kCNS1992 | 2-423B |
| kCangjie | VMHF |
| kCantonese | jyun4 |
| kCihaiT | 390.505 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0536.100 |
| kDefinition | an ancient emperor's mother's name, Qiang Yuan, consort to Gu |
| kEACC | 217C41 |
| kFanqie | 愚袁 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4149.6 |
| kGB5 | 3244 |
| kGB8 | 1433 |
| kHangul | 원:0N |
| kHanYu | 21071.140 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 21071.140:yuán |
| kIICore | AGKP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0536.100 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21071.140 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0268.370 |
| kIRG_GSource | G5-404C |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-DCF4 |
| kIRG_JSource | J13-2F7A |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-FEB7 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6A31 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-423B |
| kJapanese | ゲン ガン ギン |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:7612 |
| kJIS0213 | 1,15,90 |
| kJapaneseOn | GEN GAN |
| kJis1 | 2601 |
| kKangXi | 0268.370 |
| kKorean | WEN |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 1270 |
| kMandarin | yuán |
| kMatthews | 7726 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3669i |
| kMojiJoho | MJ009899 |
| kMorohashi | 06606 |
| kPhonetic | 1629 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+16832+38.3.10 |
| kRSUnicode | 38.10 |
| kSBGY | 113.07 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 160.02 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | yuán粵jyun4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 1270 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 451.170:yuán |
| kTotalStrokes | 13 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHKMPT |
| kXerox | 275:355 |
| kXHC1983 | 1423.050:yuán |