U+5AD8 "嫘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
嫘
U+5AD8 "嫘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that historically refers to Leizu, the legendary wife of the Yellow Emperor in ancient Chinese mythology, who is credited with discovering sericulture, or the art of silk farming and weaving. This character is composed of the radical for woman on the left, suggesting its connection to a female figure, and a phonetic component on the right. In modern usage, it appears primarily in historical or literary contexts, often as a personal name or in discussions of Chinese cultural heritage, but it is not a common character in everyday written Chinese.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5AD8 |
| 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 | 嫘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 嫘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xAB 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5AD8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005AD8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5ad8 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B9E3 |
| kCCCII | 213A3F |
| kCNS1986 | 1-684B |
| kCNS1992 | 1-684B |
| kCangjie | VWVF |
| kCantonese | leoi4 |
| kCihaiT | 391.206 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0537.140 |
| kDefinition | surname |
| kEACC | 213A3F |
| kFanqie | 力追 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4649.3 |
| kGB0 | 7048 |
| kGB1 | 7048 |
| kHanYu | 21077.050 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 21077.050:léi |
| kHKGlyph | 0956 |
| kIICore | AGTH |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0537.140 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21077.050 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0269.240 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-6650 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B9E3 |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-009919 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-3DC1 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-2D2F |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-684B |
| kJapanese | ルイ ライ レ |
| kTGH | 2013:5835 |
| kJapaneseOn | RUI RAI RE |
| kKangXi | 0269.240 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 1284 |
| kMandarin | léi |
| kMatthews | 4222 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ009919 |
| kMorohashi | 06641 |
| kPhonetic | 842 |
| kRSUnicode | 38.11 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 160.13 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | léi粵leoi4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 1284 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 212.130:léi |
| kTotalStrokes | 14 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHMT |
| kXerox | 257:321 |
| kXHC1983 | 0685.120:léi |