U+5B1E "嬞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+5B1E "嬞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and archaic Chinese character that historically referred to a respectful term for an older woman, often associated with a venerated female figure or a motherly title within classical texts. Its structure combines the radical for woman (女) on the left, with a phonetic component (東) on the right, indicating a link to its ancient pronunciation. This character is seldom used in modern Chinese, but it appears in some historical dictionaries and literary works from earlier dynasties, preserving a fragment of traditional cultural and linguistic heritage.

General Properties

Code Point U+5B1E
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 嬞
HTML Hex Encoding 嬞
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0xAC 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding 0x5B1E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00005B1E
C/C++/Java Escape \u5b1e

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 E95C
kCCCII 217D42
kCNS1986 2-5666
kCNS1992 2-5666
kCangjie VTHG
kCantonese dung2
kFourCornerCode 4441.4
kGB5 3264
kHanYu 21083.080
kHanyuPinyin 21083.080:dǒng
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 21083.080
kIRGKangXi 0272.251
kIRG_GSource G5-4060
kIRG_HSource HB2-E95C
kIRG_JSource JMJ-009995
kIRG_TSource T2-5666
kJapanese トウ
kJapaneseOn TOU
kKangXi 0272.251
kMandarin dǒng
kMojiJoho MJ009995
kMorohashi 06792
kPhonetic 1404*
kRSUnicode 38.13
kTotalStrokes 15
kUnihanCore2020 HMT