U+5B50 "子" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

子

U+5B50 "子" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a fundamental Chinese character that primarily represents the concept of "child" or "son," and is deeply rooted in East Asian culture, language, and philosophy. It originates from ancient oracle bone script, where its pictographic form depicted a small infant with swaddling arms, and it has since evolved into a core radical found in numerous other characters. Beyond its literal meaning, "子" serves as a respectful suffix for masters or teachers in classical texts, a component of words for seeds or offspring, and a pivotal element in Confucian terminology, such as "君子" meaning "gentleman" or "noble person." In modern usage, it appears in everyday vocabulary like "孩子" for "child," "儿子" for "son," and in the Chinese zodiac sign for the Rat, marking the first of the twelve earthly branches.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5B50
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	子
HTML Hex Encoding	子
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0xAD 0x90
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5B50
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005B50
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5b50

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	A46C
kCCCII	213A4D
kCNS1986	1-444D
kCNS1992	1-444D
kCangjie	ND
kCantonese	zi2
kCihaiT	395.101
kCowles	4667
kDaeJaweon	0543.150
kDefinition	offspring, child; fruit, seed of; first earthly branch
kEACC	213A4D
kFanqie	即里
kFenn	112A
kFennIndex	584.10
kFourCornerCode	1740.7
kGB0	5551
kGB1	5551
kGradeLevel	1
kGSR	0964a
kHangul	자:0E
kHanYu	21006.060
kHanyuPinlu	zi(6853) zǐ(1114)
kHanyuPinyin	21006.060:zǐ,zi
kHDZRadBreak	⼦[U+2F26]:21006.060
kHKGlyph	0969
kIICore	AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	0543.150
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	21006.060
kIRGKangXi	0277.010
kIRG_GSource	G0-5753
kIRG_HSource	HB1-A46C
kIRG_JSource	J0-3B52
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-E6AE
kIRG_KSource	K0-6D2D
kIRG_TSource	T1-444D
kIRG_VSource	V1-523B
kJapanese	シスジこね
kJoyoKanji	2010
kKoreanEducationHanja	2007
kTGH	2013:64
kJapaneseKun	KO MI OTOKO
kJapaneseOn	SHI SU
kJis0	2750
kKangXi	0277.010
kKorean	CA
kLau	1428
kMainlandTelegraph	1311
kMandarin	zǐ
kMatthews	6939
kMeyerWempe	3532
kMojiJoho	MJ010051
kMorohashi	06930
kNelson	1264
kPhonetic	134
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+2208+39.3.0
kRSUnicode	39.0
kSBGY	253.30
kSemanticVariant	U+53EA<kLau
kSMSZD2003Index	162.13
kSMSZD2003Readings	zǐ粵zi2
kTaiwanTelegraph	1311
kTang	*tziə̌
kTGHZ2013	491.190:zǐ
kTotalStrokes	3
kUnihanCore2020	GHJKMPT
kVietnamese	tí
kXerox	241:063
kXHC1983	1531.040:zǐ