U+5B56 "孖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
孖
U+5B56 "孖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "twins" or "a pair," and it is formed by two components representing the radical for child or son repeated side by side, visually emphasizing the concept of duplication or pairing. This character is used in written Chinese to denote twins, particularly in words like "孖生" which means twin birth, and it also can convey the idea of something being double or paired in other contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5B56 |
| 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 | 孖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 孖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xAD 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5B56 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005B56 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5b56 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C9D3 |
| kCCCII | 217D7C |
| kCNS1986 | 2-2233 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-2233 |
| kCangjie | NDND |
| kCantonese | zi1 |
| kCheungBauer | 039/03;NDND;maa1 |
| kCheungBauerIndex | 398.11 399.01 399.02 |
| kCihaiT | 398.102 |
| kCowles | 2552 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0545.060 |
| kDefinition | twins |
| kEACC | 217D7C |
| kFanqie | 子之 疾置 |
| kFourCornerCode | 1744.7 |
| kGB3 | 2978 |
| kGB8 | 9131 |
| kHangul | 자:1N |
| kHanYu | 21011.010 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 21011.010:zī,mā |
| kIBMJapan | FAA6 |
| kIICore | BHM |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0545.060 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21011.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0277.170 |
| kIRG_GSource | G3-3D6E |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-C9D3 |
| kIRG_JSource | J13-4F56 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-3E1D |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-6A71 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-2233 |
| kJapanese | シ ジ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:6552 |
| kJIS0213 | 1,47,54 |
| kJapaneseKun | HUTAGO |
| kJapaneseOn | SHI JI |
| kJis1 | 2630 |
| kKangXi | 0277.170 |
| kKorean | CA |
| kLau | 2034 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 8311 |
| kMandarin | mā |
| kMatthews | 6941 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1725 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ010056 |
| kMorohashi | 06941 |
| kPhonetic | 134 861 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+8432+39.3.3 |
| kRSUnicode | 39.3 |
| kSBGY | 063.20 357.18 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 163.05 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | zī粵zi1 mā粵maa1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 1315 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 490.160:zī |
| kTotalStrokes | 6 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHMT |
| kXerox | 311:047 |
| kXHC1983 | 0753.100:mā |