U+5B6B "孫" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
孫
U+5B6B "孫" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "grandchild" or "descendant," often used in compound terms like "zisun" to refer to offspring across generations. In traditional Chinese culture, it carries significant familial weight, representing lineage and the continuation of a family line, and it appears in historical texts, names, and proverbs. The character is composed of the radical for "son" or "child" (子) combined with elements suggesting succession or smallness, reinforcing its connection to generational heritage. It is used across multiple East Asian writing systems, including traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, where it retains similar semantic roots related to family and posterity.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5B6B |
| 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 | 孫 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 孫 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xAD 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5B6B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005B6B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5b6b |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | AE5D |
| kCCCII | 213A5B |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5521 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5521 |
| kCangjie | NDHVF |
| kCantonese | syun1 |
| kCihaiT | 401.602 |
| kCowles | 3704 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0548.190 |
| kDefinition | grandchild, descendent; surname |
| kEACC | 213A5B |
| kFanqie | 思渾 |
| kFenn | 887C |
| kFennIndex | 477.07 |
| kFourCornerCode | 1249.3 |
| kGB1 | 4379 |
| kGradeLevel | 3 |
| kGSR | 0434a |
| kHangul | 손:0E |
| kHanYu | 21016.050 |
| kHanyuPinlu | sūn(19) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 21016.050:sūn,xùn |
| kHKGlyph | 0983 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0548.190 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21016.050 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0279.230 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-4B6F |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-AE5D |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4239 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E3CA |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-615D |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5521 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-5247 |
| kJapanese | ソン まご |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kJapaneseKun | MAGO |
| kJapaneseOn | SON |
| kJis0 | 3425 |
| kKangXi | 0279.230 |
| kKorean | SON |
| kLau | 2916 |
| kMandarin | sūn |
| kMatthews | 5541 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2855 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ010079 |
| kMorohashi | 06987 |
| kNelson | 1273 |
| kPhonetic | 1242 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2841+39.3.7 |
| kRSUnicode | 39.7 |
| kSBGY | 117.33 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "孙" U+5B59 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 164.15 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | sūn粵syun1 xùn粵seon3 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 1327 |
| kTang | *suən |
| kTotalStrokes | 10 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | tôn |
| kXerox | 244:277 |
| kXHC1983 | 1101.071:sūn |