U+5B44 "孄" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+5B44 "孄" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and obsolete Chinese character classified under the Kangxi radical for "woman" (女) with an additional phonetic or semantic component, though its precise meaning and usage remain obscure in modern standard Chinese. It is primarily found in historical or classical texts, particularly in older dictionaries or literary works, where it may have denoted a specific female attribute or title, though its exact definition is often unattested in contemporary language databases. As a seldom-used character within the vast CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideograph set, it serves as an example of the extensive encoding of historical East Asian script in Unicode, preserving a piece of linguistic heritage despite its practical redundancy today.

General Properties

Code Point U+5B44
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 孄
HTML Hex Encoding 孄
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0xAD 0x84
UTF-16 Encoding 0x5B44
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00005B44
C/C++/Java Escape \u5b44

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 217D6B
kCNS1986 E-5C39
kCNS1992 3-5C39
kCangjie VANW
kCantonese laan5
kDaeJaweon 0542.250
kGB5 3268
kHanYu 21090.140
kIRGDaeJaweon 0542.250
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 21090.150
kIRGKangXi 0274.080
kIRG_GSource G5-4064
kIRG_HSource H-9367
kIRG_JSource JMJ-010039
kIRG_TSource T3-5C39
kJapanese ラン
kKangXi 0274.080
kMandarin lǎn
kMojiJoho MJ010039
kMorohashi 06892
kRSUnicode 38.17
kSimplifiedVariant "𫝮" U+2B76E CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kTotalStrokes 20
kUnihanCore2020 H