U+5B40 "孀" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
孀
U+5B40 "孀" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character classified as a Han (CJK) ideograph, meaning "widow" and specifically denoting a woman who has lost her husband and not remarried. This character is composed of the radical "女" (woman) on the left, indicating its feminine association, and the phonetic component "霜" (shuāng, meaning frost) on the right, which contributes to its pronunciation. It is used in classical literary contexts as well as in modern Chinese to refer to a widow, often carrying connotations of solitude and chastity within historical social structures.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5B40 |
| 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 | 孀 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 孀 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xAD 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5B40 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005B40 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5b40 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C45C |
| kCCCII | 213A4C |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7967 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7967 |
| kCangjie | VMBU |
| kCantonese | soeng1 |
| kCihaiT | 393.104 |
| kCowles | 3629 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0542.180 |
| kDefinition | widow |
| kEACC | 213A4C |
| kFanqie | 色莊 |
| kFenn | 847F |
| kFennIndex | 467.02 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4146.3 |
| kGB0 | 7055 |
| kGB1 | 7055 |
| kGSR | 0731h |
| kHangul | 상:0N |
| kHanYu | 21090.070 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 21090.070:shuāng |
| kHKGlyph | 0968 |
| kIICore | AGTHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0542.180 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21090.070 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0273.430 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-6657 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C45C |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-5552 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E1C9 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5F45 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7967 |
| kIRG_VSource | V2-8B4E |
| kJapanese | ソウ ショウ やもめ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:6446 |
| kJapaneseKun | YAMOME |
| kJapaneseOn | SOU |
| kJis0 | 5350 |
| kKangXi | 0273.430 |
| kKorean | SANG |
| kLau | 2737 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 1307 |
| kMandarin | shuāng |
| kMatthews | 5920 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2577 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ010035 |
| kMorohashi | 06885 |
| kNelson | 1263 |
| kPhonetic | 1161 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+4609+38.3.17 |
| kRSUnicode | 38.17 |
| kSBGY | 176.30 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+971C<kLau |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 162.10 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | shuāng粵soeng1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 1307 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 344.070:shuāng |
| kTotalStrokes | 20 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kXerox | 265:163 |
| kXHC1983 | 1073.030:shuāng |