U+5AF1 "嫱" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+5AF1 "嫱" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that historically refers to a palace maid or a female attendant in the imperial court, often associated with the ancient practice of selecting young women to serve in the harem or as ladies-in-waiting. This character combines the radical for woman ("女") on the left, indicating its feminine association, with a phonetic component on the right that suggests its pronunciation, which is "qiáng" in Mandarin Chinese. While not commonly used in modern everyday language, it appears in classical texts and historical records, particularly in descriptions of courtly life and hierarchical roles within ancient Chinese dynasties. The character thus carries a nuanced cultural and historical significance, reflecting the social structures and gender roles of imperial China.

General Properties

Code Point U+5AF1
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 嫱
HTML Hex Encoding 嫱
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0xAB 0xB1
UTF-16 Encoding 0x5AF1
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00005AF1
C/C++/Java Escape \u5af1

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 277D40
kCangjie VGCW
kCantonese coeng4
kDefinition lady
kEACC 277D40
kFourCornerCode 4446
kGB0 7045
kHanYu 21075.110
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 21075.110
kIRGKangXi 0270.311
kIRG_GSource G0-664D
kTGH 2013:5831
kKangXi 0270.311
kMainlandTelegraph 1297
kMandarin qiáng
kRSUnicode 38.11
kSMSZD2003Index 161.05
kTGHZ2013 298.120:qiáng
kTotalStrokes 14
kTraditionalVariant "嬙" U+5B19 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 0917.130:qiáng