U+5B24 "嬤" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

嬤

U+5B24 "嬤" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character historically used as a respectful or colloquial term for an elderly woman, often a grandmother or an older female relative, and in some contexts it can refer to a wet nurse or a midwife. This character belongs to the CJK Unified Ideographs block, which encompasses characters from Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese writing systems. Its structure combines the radical for woman on the left, suggesting its association with females, with a phonetic component on the right. In modern usage, "嬤" appears in terms like "嬤嬤" (māmā) as an affectionate address for an older woman, particularly in Chinese literature and historical texts, and it retains a formal or traditional nuance, distinguishing it from more common modern terms like "奶奶" or "阿婆."

General Properties

Code Point	U+5B24
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	嬤
HTML Hex Encoding	嬤
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0xAC 0xA4
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5B24
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005B24
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5b24

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	C0A8
kCCCII	213A49
kCNS1986	1-7351
kCNS1992	1-7351
kCangjie	VIDI
kCantonese	maa1
kCihaiT	392.502
kDaeJaweon	0540.380
kDefinition	mother
kEACC	213A49
kFanqie	亡果
kFourCornerCode	4043.2
kGB5	3278
kHanYu	21087.140
kHanyuPinyin	21087.140:mā
kHKGlyph	0965
kIICore	ATHM
kIRGDaeJaweon	0540.380
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	21087.140
kIRGKangXi	0272.270
kIRG_GSource	G5-406E
kIRG_HSource	HB1-C0A8
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-010001
kIRG_TSource	T1-7351
kJapanese	バマ
kJapaneseOn	BA MA
kKangXi	0272.270
kMandarin	mā
kMojiJoho	MJ010001
kMorohashi	06809
kRSUnicode	38.14
kSimplifiedVariant	"嬷" U+5B37 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	162.03
kSMSZD2003Readings	mā粵maa1
kTotalStrokes	17
kUnihanCore2020	HMT
kXerox	277:242