U+5AE9 "嫩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

嫩

U+5AE9 "嫩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "tender," "delicate," or "young," often used to describe soft textures, fresh produce, or inexperience in people. Its structure combines the radical for "female" (女, nǚ) with the phonetic component "敕" (chì), reflecting its etymological roots in written Chinese. Commonly found in modern Mandarin vocabulary, it appears in words like "nèn lǜ" (嫩绿) for a soft light green color, "nèn ròu" (嫩肉) for tender meat, and "nèn cǎo" (嫩草) for young grass. This character falls under the Kangxi radical 38 (女) and is encoded in the CJK Unified Ideographs block, serving as a fundamental part of East Asian writing systems for expressing nuanced qualities of youthfulness or fragility.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5AE9
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	嫩
HTML Hex Encoding	嫩
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0xAB 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5AE9
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005AE9
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5ae9

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

kBigFive	B9E0
kCCCII	213A3E
kCNS1986	1-6848
kCNS1992	1-6848
kCangjie	VDLK
kCantonese	nyun6
kCihaiT	391.301
kCowles	2947
kDaeJaweon	0538.070
kDefinition	soft, tender, delicate; young
kEACC	213A3E
kFanqie	奴困
kFenn	501E
kFennIndex	358.04
kFourCornerCode	4844.0
kGB0	3659
kGB1	3659
kGradeLevel	5
kHangul	눈:0N
kHanYu	21075.150
kHanyuPinlu	nèn(26)
kHanyuPinyin	21075.150:nèn
kHKGlyph	0951
kIICore	AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	0538.070
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	21075.150
kIRGKangXi	0270.110
kIRG_GSource	G0-445B
kIRG_HSource	HB1-B9E0
kIRG_JSource	J0-5544
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-D4F9
kIRG_KSource	K0-526C
kIRG_TSource	T1-6848
kIRG_VSource	V1-5236
kJapanese	ドンノンナンわかい
kKoreanName	2015
kTGH	2013:3183
kJapaneseKun	WAKAI
kJapaneseOn	DON NON ZEN
kJis0	5336
kKangXi	0270.110
kKorean	NWUN
kLau	2407
kMainlandTelegraph	1282
kMandarin	nèn
kMatthews	4765
kMeyerWempe	2121
kMojiJoho	MJ009941
kMorohashi	06666
kNelson	1252
kPhonetic	990
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+4595+38.3.11
kRSUnicode	38.11
kSBGY	399.22
kSemanticVariant	U+5A86<kCowles U+217BE<kMeyerWempe
kSMSZD2003Index	160.21 278.12
kSMSZD2003Readings	nèn粵nyun6
kSpecializedSemanticVariant	U+5AF0<kFenn
kTaiwanTelegraph	1282
kTang	nuə̀n
kTGHZ2013	264.030:nèn
kTotalStrokes	14
kUnihanCore2020	GHJKMPT
kVietnamese	non
kXerox	254:046
kXHC1983	0825.030:nèn