U+5B43 "孃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

孃

U+5B43 "孃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that primarily signifies an older woman, such as an aunt, mother, or a respectful term for a female elder, and it was historically used in classical texts and family titles. In modern simplified Chinese, it has largely been replaced by the character "娘" (niáng), which serves similar meanings like "mother" or "woman," though "孃" retains its distinct form in traditional writing and specific regional usage. The character carries cultural and historical weight, appearing in classical literature and family designations, and its structure combines the radical for woman (女) with the phonetic component "襄" (xiāng), reflecting its linguistic roots in the CJK Unified Ideographs block, which encompasses characters from Chinese, Japanese, and Korean scripts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5B43
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	孃
HTML Hex Encoding	孃
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0xAD 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5B43
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005B43
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5b43

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	C45D
kCCCII	217D68
kCNS1986	1-7968
kCNS1992	1-7968
kCangjie	VYRV
kCantonese	noeng4
kCihaiT	393.102
kDaeJaweon	0542.240
kDefinition	troubled, oppressed; fat; mother
kEACC	2D3974
kFanqie	汝陽女良
kFenn	369I
kFennIndex	361.05
kFourCornerCode	4043.2
kGB8	9457
kHangul	양:0N
kHanYu	21090.130
kHanyuPinyin	21090.130:ráng,niáng
kIICore	ATKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	0542.240
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	21090.140
kIRGKangXi	0274.070
kIRG_GSource	G8-7E59
kIRG_HSource	HB1-C45D
kIRG_JSource	J0-5550
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-F7F2
kIRG_KSource	K0-653E
kIRG_TSource	T1-7968
kJapanese	ジョウニョウドウむすめ
kJinmeiyoKanji	2010:U+5B22
kKoreanName	2015
kJapaneseKun	MUSUME
kJapaneseOn	JOU
kJis0	5348
kKangXi	0274.070
kKorean	YANG
kLau	2288
kMainlandTelegraph	8304
kMandarin	niáng
kMatthews	4684
kMojiJoho	MJ010038
kMorohashi	06891
kNelson	1262
kPhonetic	1160
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+4607+38.3.17
kRSUnicode	38.17
kSBGY	174.42 176.05
kSemanticVariant	U+5A18<kLau
kSMSZD2003Index	162.11
kTaiwanTelegraph	8284
kTang	*niɑng
kTotalStrokes	20
kUnihanCore2020	HJKMPT
kXerox	316:300
kXHC1983	0832.111:niáng