U+5B0B "嬋" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+5B0B "嬋" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character traditionally meaning “elegant,” “graceful,” or “beautiful,” often used in classical or literary contexts to describe a woman’s fine appearance or manner. In modern usage, it appears in names like Diaochan (貂蟬), the legendary femme fatale from the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms," and also carries the phonetic value "chan" in Mandarin. This character belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideographs block and is encoded in the Unicode Standard to support consistent digital representation of East Asian texts.

General Properties

Code Point U+5B0B
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 嬋
HTML Hex Encoding 嬋
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0xAC 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding 0x5B0B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00005B0B
C/C++/Java Escape \u5b0b

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 BC60
kCCCII 213A43
kCNS1986 1-6C4A
kCNS1992 1-6C4A
kCangjie VRRJ
kCantonese sim4
kCihaiT 391.502
kDaeJaweon 0539.210
kDefinition beautiful, lovely, pretty, graceful
kEACC 213A43
kFanqie 市連
kFourCornerCode 4645.6
kGB1 7031
kGSR 0147y
kHangul 선:0N
kHanYu 21080.150
kHanyuPinyin 21080.150:chán
kHKGlyph 0959
kIICore ATHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon 0539.210
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 21080.150
kIRGKangXi 0271.300
kIRG_GSource G1-663F
kIRG_HSource HB1-BC60
kIRG_JSource J0-5549
kIRG_KPSource KP0-E2B4
kIRG_KSource K0-603D
kIRG_TSource T1-6C4A
kJapanese セン ゼン
kKoreanName 2015
kJapaneseKun HIKITSUNAGA MIUCHI
kJapaneseOn SEN ZEN
kJis0 5341
kKangXi 0271.300
kKorean SEN
kMandarin chán
kMatthews 5648
kMeyerWempe 2718a
kMojiJoho MJ009976
kMorohashi 06738
kNelson 1254
kPhonetic 1294
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+4600+38.3.12
kRSUnicode 38.12
kSBGY 138.39
kSimplifiedVariant "婵" U+5A75 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index 161.12
kSMSZD2003Readings chán粵sim4
kTaiwanTelegraph 1292
kTang zhiɛn
kTotalStrokes 15
kUnihanCore2020 HJKMPT
kXerox 274:172
kXHC1983 0117.131:chán