U+5B62 "孢" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

孢

U+5B62 "孢" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily refers to spores, the reproductive units of fungi, algae, and some plants, and it is often used in biological and botanical contexts. In modern Mandarin, it is pronounced "bāo" and appears in compound terms such as "孢子" (bāozi) meaning spore, as well as in words related to cell structure or germination. The character is composed of the radical 子 (child) and the phonetic component 包 (to wrap), reflecting its semantic link to small enclosed reproductive bodies.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5B62
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	孢
HTML Hex Encoding	孢
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0xAD 0xA2
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5B62
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005B62
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5b62

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	CC55
kCCCII	217E23
kCNS1986	2-2636
kCNS1992	2-2636
kCangjie	NDPRU
kCantonese	baau1
kDaeJaweon	0547.040
kDefinition	spore
kEACC	217E23
kFourCornerCode	1741.2
kGB0	7063
kGB1	7063
kHanYu	21014.020
kHanyuPinyin	21014.020:bāo
kIICore	BGTM
kIRGDaeJaweon	0547.040
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	21014.020
kIRGKangXi	0279.020
kIRG_GSource	G0-665F
kIRG_HSource	HB2-CC55
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-010069
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-3E28
kIRG_KSource	K2-2D5D
kIRG_TSource	T2-2636
kJapanese	ホウヒョウ
kTGH	2013:4061
kKangXi	0279.020
kMandarin	bāo
kMojiJoho	MJ010069
kMorohashi	06964
kPhonetic	1011
kRSUnicode	39.5
kSMSZD2003Index	164.06
kSMSZD2003Readings	bāo粵baau1
kTGHZ2013	012.020:bāo
kTotalStrokes	8
kUnihanCore2020	GHMT
kXerox	317:342
kXHC1983	0037.060:bāo