U+5AFE "嫾" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+5AFE "嫾" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and complex Chinese character that belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideograph block, representing a logogram used in East Asian writing systems. Its glyph is constructed from the radical for "woman" or "female" (女) combined with a phonetic component, suggesting it may denote a feminine quality or a specific historical term, though its precise meaning and usage remain obscure due to its infrequent appearance in modern texts. This character is part of a vast set of East Asian pictographic symbols standardized by Unicode to ensure cross-platform digital consistency for languages like Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, and it is typically encoded for specialized historical or literary contexts rather than everyday communication.

General Properties

Code Point U+5AFE
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 嫾
HTML Hex Encoding 嫾
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0xAB 0xBE
UTF-16 Encoding 0x5AFE
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00005AFE
C/C++/Java Escape \u5afe

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 237B2D
kCNS1986 E-4B54
kCNS1992 3-4B54
kCangjie VFDQ
kCantonese lin4
kHanYu 21082.130
kHanyuPinyin 21082.130:lián
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 21082.130
kIRGKangXi 0271.110
kIRG_GSource GE-363A
kIRG_HSource H-9672
kIRG_JSource JMJ-009962
kIRG_TSource T3-4B54
kJapanese レン
kKangXi 0271.110
kMandarin lián
kMojiJoho MJ009962
kMorohashi 06718
kPhonetic 852*
kRSUnicode 38.12
kTotalStrokes 15
kUnihanCore2020 H