U+5B38 "嬸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
嬸
U+5B38 "嬸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that represents the concept of an aunt, specifically the wife of one's father's younger brother, or more generally a term of respect for a woman of a similar age or generation in familial or social contexts. It is composed of the radical "女" denoting woman, combined with the phonetic component "審" to indicate its pronunciation, which in Mandarin is "shěn". This character is used in written Chinese, particularly in regions where traditional script is standard such as Taiwan and Hong Kong, and it appears in literary works, family records, and everyday communication to address or refer to this specific familial relationship.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5B38 |
| 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 | 嬸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 嬸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xAC 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5B38 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005B38 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5b38 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C254 |
| kCCCII | 213A4B |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7640 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7640 |
| kCangjie | VJHW |
| kCantonese | sam2 |
| kCihaiT | 392.602 |
| kCowles | 3827 |
| kDefinition | wife of father's younger brother |
| kEACC | 213A4B |
| kFanqie | 式任 |
| kFenn | 811H |
| kFennIndex | 445.02 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4346.9 |
| kGB1 | 4184 |
| kGradeLevel | 4 |
| kHanYu | 21089.040 |
| kHanyuPinlu | shěn(172) shen(66) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 21089.040:shěn |
| kHKGlyph | 0967 |
| kIICore | ATHM |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21089.040 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0273.190 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-4974 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C254 |
| kIRG_JSource | J1-3A39 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-3E04 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-2D51 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7640 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-523A |
| kJapanese | シン |
| kJapaneseOn | SHIN |
| kJis1 | 2625 |
| kKangXi | 0273.190 |
| kLau | 2647 |
| kMandarin | shěn |
| kMatthews | 5730 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2622 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ010026 |
| kMorohashi | 06851 |
| kPhonetic | 1121 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+19320+38.3.15 |
| kRSUnicode | 38.15 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "婶" U+5A76 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 162.08 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | shěn粵sam2 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 1306 |
| kTotalStrokes | 18 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |
| kVietnamese | thím |
| kXerox | 255:266 |
| kXHC1983 | 1021.051:shěn |