U+5B08 "嬈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
嬈
U+5B08 "嬈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used historically in Classical Chinese and occasionally in modern contexts, primarily meaning "to disturb," "to vex," or "to be tender and delicate," with a secondary connotation of "graceful" or "charming" when describing feminine beauty. It belongs to the CJK Unified Ideographs block and is composed of the radical (nǚ, meaning "woman") and the phonetic component (yáo), reflecting its semantic association with feminine qualities or actions. This character is categorized as a rare or obscure sinogram in contemporary usage, appearing more often in literary or historical texts than in everyday communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5B08 |
| 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 | 嬈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 嬈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xAC 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5B08 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005B08 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5b08 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | BC63 |
| kCCCII | 217D2B |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6C4D |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6C4D |
| kCangjie | VGGU |
| kCantonese | jiu2 |
| kCihaiT | 391.407 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0539.180 |
| kDefinition | graceful, charming, fascinating |
| kEACC | 217D2B |
| kFanqie | 奴鳥 而沼 火弔 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4441.2 |
| kGB1 | 7012 |
| kHangul | 요:1N |
| kHanYu | 21078.190 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 21078.190:rǎo,ráo,yǎo |
| kIICore | ATH |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0539.180 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21078.190 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0271.260 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-662C |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-BC63 |
| kIRG_JSource | J14-2572 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-3DE6 |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-6874 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6C4D |
| kJapanese | ジョウ ヨウ ニョウ ドウ キョウ なやむ よわい わずらわしい たわむれる |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJIS0213 | 2,05,82 |
| kJapaneseKun | WAZURUWASHII NAYAMU |
| kJapaneseOn | DEU NEU ZEU DAU EU KEU |
| kJis1 | 2616 |
| kKangXi | 0271.260 |
| kKorean | YO |
| kMandarin | ráo |
| kMatthews | 3086 |
| kMeyerWempe | 920h |
| kMojiJoho | MJ009973 |
| kMorohashi | 06734 |
| kPhonetic | 1598 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+17516+38.3.12 |
| kRSUnicode | 38.12 |
| kSBGY | 296.40 297.34 413.28 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "娆" U+5A06 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 161.10 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | ráo粵jiu4 rǎo粵jiu2 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 1290 |
| kTotalStrokes | 15 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |
| kXerox | 274:173 |
| kXHC1983 | 0956.041:ráo 0956.061:rǎo |