U+5AE0 "嫠" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
嫠
U+5AE0 "嫠" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means a widow or a woman who has lost her husband, and it is composed of a phonetic element alongside the radical for woman. In classical Chinese texts, this character appears in contexts discussing marital status or social roles, often carrying a connotation of isolation or respect for a woman who remains unmarried after her spouse's death. Its usage is largely historical or literary, and it is not commonly found in modern everyday Chinese language, though it may be encountered in specialized discussions of traditional family structures or in the study of classical literature.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5AE0 |
| 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 | 嫠 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 嫠 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xAB 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5AE0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005AE0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5ae0 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | E175 |
| kCCCII | 217C6E |
| kCNS1986 | 2-495C |
| kCNS1992 | 2-495C |
| kCangjie | JKMV |
| kCantonese | lei4 |
| kCihaiT | 391.103 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0537.260 |
| kDefinition | a widow |
| kEACC | 217C6E |
| kFanqie | 里之 |
| kFenn | 497I |
| kFennIndex | 295.07 |
| kFourCornerCode | 5824.4 |
| kGB0 | 7043 |
| kGB1 | 7043 |
| kGSR | 0979f |
| kHangul | 리:1N |
| kHanYu | 21075.020 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 21075.020:lí |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0537.260 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21075.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0269.360 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-664B |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-E175 |
| kIRG_JSource | J14-256C |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-3DC2 |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-5F5B |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-495C |
| kJapanese | リ やもめ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:5627 |
| kJIS0213 | 2,05,76 |
| kJapaneseKun | YAMOME |
| kJapaneseOn | RI |
| kJis1 | 2607 |
| kKangXi | 0269.360 |
| kKarlgren | 535 |
| kKorean | LI |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 1278 |
| kMandarin | lí |
| kMatthews | 3880 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1517c |
| kMojiJoho | MJ009931 |
| kMorohashi | 06655 |
| kPhonetic | 787 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+14466+38.3.11 |
| kRSUnicode | 38.11 |
| kSBGY | 061.55 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 160.17 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | lí粵lei4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 1278 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 215.080:lí |
| kTotalStrokes | 14 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHMT |
| kXerox | 277:241 |
| kXHC1983 | 0691.090:lí |