U+5B6D "孭" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+5B6D "孭" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a han character used in written Chinese and related scripts, where it carries the primary meaning of "to carry on the back" or "to bear," often referring to the act of supporting a load or burden, such as carrying a child piggyback. Its composition combines the radical for child or son (子) with a phonetic component, and it appears in various regional vocabularies, including Cantonese, where it is commonly employed in everyday speech to describe carrying something on one's shoulders or back. The character is part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block in Unicode, representing a standard encoding for East Asian ideographic writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point U+5B6D
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 孭
HTML Hex Encoding 孭
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0xAD 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding 0x5B6D
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00005B6D
C/C++/Java Escape \u5b6d

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

kCangjie NDBUC
kCantonese me1
kCheungBauer 039/07;NDBUC;me1
kCheungBauerIndex 399.04 399.05
kCowles 2650
kDefinition (Cant.) to carry on the back
kHanYu 21016.030
kHanyuPinyin 21016.030:miē
kIICore CH
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 21016.030
kIRGKangXi 0280.021
kIRG_GSource GH-1246
kIRG_HSource H-9DC0
kKangXi 0280.021
kLau 2121
kMandarin miē
kMeyerWempe 1801
kPseudoGB1 9227
kRSUnicode 39.7
kSemanticVariant U+27D2F<kMeyerWempe
kTotalStrokes 10
kUnihanCore2020 H