U+5AF2 "嫲" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+5AF2 "嫲" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used primarily in Cantonese and some regional dialects, where it commonly refers to a grandmother or an elderly woman, often as a term of address or familial reference. Its structure combines the radical for woman with a phonetic component indicating its pronunciation, and while it is less frequent in standard Mandarin, it retains cultural significance in southern Chinese communities for denoting maternal or paternal grandmother figures.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5AF2
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	嫲
HTML Hex Encoding	嫲
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0xAB 0xB2
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5AF2
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005AF2
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5af2

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

kCangjie	VIDD
kCantonese	maa4
kCheungBauer	038/11;VIDD;maa4
kCheungBauerIndex	398.06
kDefinition	(Cant.) paternal grandmother
kHanYu	80018.130
kIICore	BHM
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	80018.130
kIRGKangXi	0270.311
kIRG_GSource	GH-1245
kIRG_HSource	H-8F78
kKangXi	0270.311
kLau	2042
kMandarin	ma
kPseudoGB1	9226
kRSUnicode	38.11
kTotalStrokes	14
kUnihanCore2020	HM