U+5B5E "孞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+5B5E "孞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare Chinese character that combines the radical for "child" or "son" (子) with the component for "heart" or "mind" (心), and it is generally understood to convey meanings related to filial piety, sincerity, or a devoted heart, though it is not commonly used in modern standard Chinese. This character appears in historical or classical contexts where such nuanced, heart-centered virtues are emphasized, and its infrequency in contemporary writing makes it a subject of interest for scholars of rare sinographs or ancient texts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5B5E
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	孞
HTML Hex Encoding	孞
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0xAD 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5B5E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005B5E
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5b5e

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	237C2C
kCangjie	NDP
kCantonese	seon3
kHanYu	21012.070
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	21012.070
kIRGKangXi	0278.151
kIRG_GSource	GE-364E
kIRG_JSource	J1-3A3F
kJapanese	シン
kJapaneseOn	SHIN
kJis1	2631
kKangXi	0278.151
kMandarin	xìn
kMojiJoho	MJ010065
kMorohashi	06959
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+21428+39.3.4 C+21428+61.4.3
kRSUnicode	39.4
kTotalStrokes	7