U+5B60 "孠" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+5B60 "孠" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare or archaic Chinese character from the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideograph block, though its exact meaning and usage are often ambiguous or context dependent. This character is composed of the radical "子" (child or offspring) combined with the phonetic component "司" (to manage or to control), suggesting a possible historical connection to concepts of governance, inheritance, or familial lineage. While not commonly used in modern standard Chinese, Japanese, or Korean writing, it may appear in classical texts, historical documents, or specialized dictionaries, where its precise interpretation relies on the original source material. As with many obscure CJK characters, its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures digital preservation and accessibility for scholarly research and rare text reproduction.

General Properties

Code Point U+5B60
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 孠
HTML Hex Encoding 孠
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0xAD 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding 0x5B60
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00005B60
C/C++/Java Escape \u5b60

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 2D367B
kCNS1986 E-2848
kCNS1992 3-2848
kCangjie SRND
kCantonese zi6
kDaeJaweon 0547.010
kFanqie 祥吏
kHanYu 21014.040
kIRGDaeJaweon 0547.010
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 21014.040
kIRGKangXi 0278.170
kIRG_GSource GE-364F
kIRG_JSource JMJ-010067
kIRG_TSource T3-2848
kJapanese
kKangXi 0278.170
kMandarin
kMojiJoho MJ010067
kMorohashi 06961
kPhonetic 1169*
kRSUnicode 39.5
kSBGY 356.35
kTotalStrokes 8