U+5B3A "嬺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+5B3A "嬺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and complex Chinese character classified under the radical for "woman" (女). It is used in classical and literary contexts, primarily pronounced as "nì" in Mandarin, and carries meanings related to a woman's virtuous conduct, filial piety, or inner beauty and grace. Its form, combining the "woman" radical with a phonetic component that suggests closeness or intimacy, reflects traditional ideals of feminine moral excellence. This character appears in ancient Chinese texts and dictionaries but is not commonly used in modern everyday writing, making it of particular interest to scholars of historical linguistics and classical literature.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5B3A
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	嬺
HTML Hex Encoding	嬺
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0xAC 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5B3A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005B3A
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5b3a

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	217D5C
kCNS1986	E-5761
kCNS1992	3-5761
kCangjie	VSRP
kCantonese	nik1
kCihaiT	392.603
kGB5	3275
kHanYu	21085.130
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	21085.130
kIRGKangXi	0273.210
kIRG_GSource	G5-406B
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-010028
kIRG_KSource	K2-2D53
kIRG_TSource	T3-5761
kJapanese	ジョク
kKangXi	0273.210
kMandarin	nì
kMojiJoho	MJ010028
kMorohashi	06853
kRSUnicode	38.15
kTotalStrokes	17