U+5B6A "孪" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
孪
U+5B6A "孪" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents the concept of twins or being paired, often used in compound words like 孪生 (luánshēng), meaning twin or twinborn. It is composed of two identical components stacked vertically, with the radical 子 (child, son) on the bottom, visually reinforcing the idea of two similar entities or offspring together. This character is classified as a Simplified Chinese character, with its Traditional counterpart being 孿, and it appears in modern texts related to family, genetics, or duplication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5B6A |
| 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 | 孪 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 孪 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xAD 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5B6A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005B6A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5b6a |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 273A63 |
| kCNS1986 | E-2C2F |
| kCNS1992 | 3-2C2F |
| kCangjie | YCND |
| kCantonese | lyun4 |
| kDefinition | twins |
| kEACC | 273A63 |
| kFourCornerCode | 0040 |
| kGB0 | 3447 |
| kHanYu | 21015.100 |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21015.100 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0279.191 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-424F |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-2C2F |
| kTGH | 2013:4303 |
| kKangXi | 0279.191 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 1334 |
| kMandarin | luán |
| kPhonetic | 833* |
| kRSUnicode | 39.6 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "孪" U+5B6A CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 164.12 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 236.060:luán |
| kTotalStrokes | 9 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "孪" U+5B6A CJK Unified Ideograph-# "孿" U+5B7F CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0744.100:luán |