U+5B05 "嬅" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+5B05 "嬅" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character used in historical and literary contexts, though it is not common in modern everyday writing. Its radical is "女" (nǚ), meaning woman or female, and the character is pronounced as "huà" in Mandarin Chinese, often appearing in personal names or classical texts. The character carries connotations of elegance or beauty, reflecting its composition from the female radical combined with phonetic elements. While its usage is rare today, it remains part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideograph set, preserving a linguistic link to earlier forms of written Chinese.

General Properties

Code Point U+5B05
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 嬅
HTML Hex Encoding 嬅
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0xAC 0x85
UTF-16 Encoding 0x5B05
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00005B05
C/C++/Java Escape \u5b05

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 E55F
kCCCII 217D31
kCNS1986 2-5028
kCNS1992 2-5028
kCangjie VTMJ
kCantonese waa6
kDaeJaweon 0539.150
kDefinition beautiful; used in girls' names
kFourCornerCode 4445.4
kGB3 2851
kHangul 화:0N
kHanYu 21079.060
kHanyuPinyin 21079.060:huà
kIICore ATHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon 0539.150
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 21079.060
kIRGKangXi 0271.220
kIRG_GSource G3-3C53
kIRG_HSource HB2-E55F
kIRG_JSource JMJ-009970
kIRG_KPSource KP0-F6B4
kIRG_KSource K0-7B7B
kIRG_TSource T2-5028
kJapanese カ ゲ うつくしい
kKoreanName 2015
kJapaneseOn KUWA GE
kKangXi 0271.220
kKorean HWA
kMandarin huà
kMojiJoho MJ009970 MJ009970:E0100 MJ009969:E0101
kMorohashi 06730:E0101
kRSUnicode 38.12
kSimplifiedVariant "𫰡" U+2BC21 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kTotalStrokes 13
kUnihanCore2020 HKMPT