U+5B39 "嬹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+5B39 "嬹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and complex Chinese character that falls under the category of CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) ideographs, specifically within the block of Unified Repertoire and Ordering. This character is not commonly used in modern writing and has limited documented definitions, though it may historically relate to phonetic borrowing or variant forms in classical texts. Its structure combines a semantic radical often associated with women or femininity, as seen in the left component, with a phonetic component on the right that provides a clue to its pronunciation, which is generally reconstructed as something like "xìng" in Mandarin based on its components. Due to its obscurity, the character is primarily of interest to specialized fields such as historical linguistics, paleography, or Unicode standardization efforts, and it may appear in rare or archaic inscriptions rather than everyday communication.

General Properties

Code Point U+5B39
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 嬹
HTML Hex Encoding 嬹
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0xAC 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding 0x5B39
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00005B39
C/C++/Java Escape \u5b39

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

kCCCII 217D67
kCNS1986 E-5A31
kCNS1992 3-5A31
kCangjie VHXC
kCantonese hing1
kFanqie 許應
kGB3 2970
kHanYu 21089.150
kHanyuPinyin 21089.150:xìng,xīng
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 21089.150
kIRGKangXi 0273.200
kIRG_GSource G3-3D66
kIRG_JSource JMJ-010027
kIRG_KSource K2-2D52
kIRG_TSource T3-5A31
kJapanese キョウ コウ
kKangXi 0273.200
kMandarin xìng
kMojiJoho MJ010027
kMorohashi 06852
kRSUnicode 38.16
kSBGY 433.17
kTotalStrokes 19