U+5B8B "宋" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

宋

U+5B8B "宋" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily refers to the Song dynasty, a major imperial dynasty in Chinese history that ruled from 960 to 1279, and it also denotes the surname Song, which is one of the most common family names in China. In addition, this character can mean "to sing" or "melody" in certain classical contexts, though its modern usage is overwhelmingly tied to the historical dynasty and the surname. Its structure combines the radical for "roof" (宀) with the character for "wood" (木), symbolically representing a house or family, which aligns with its use as a surname. The character is encoded in the CJK Unified Ideographs block of Unicode, ensuring its consistent representation across digital systems for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5B8B
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	宋
HTML Hex Encoding	宋
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0xAE 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5B8B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005B8B
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5b8b

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	A7BA
kCCCII	213A6A
kCNS1986	1-497A
kCNS1992	1-497A
kCangjie	JD
kCantonese	sung3
kCihaiT	409.401
kCowles	3751
kDaeJaweon	0554.070
kDefinition	Song dynasty; surname
kEACC	213A6A
kFanqie	蘇統
kFenn	484G
kFennIndex	479.06
kFourCornerCode	3090.4
kGB0	4346
kGB1	4346
kGSR	1004a
kHangul	송:0N
kHanYu	20915.020
kHanyuPinyin	20915.020:sòng
kHKGlyph	0999
kIICore	AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	0554.070
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	20915.020
kIRGKangXi	0282.120
kIRG_GSource	G0-4B4E
kIRG_HSource	HB1-A7BA
kIRG_JSource	J0-4157
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-E3D1
kIRG_KSource	K0-6164
kIRG_TSource	T1-497A
kIRG_VSource	V1-524F
kJapanese	ソウス
kJinmeiyoKanji	2010
kKoreanName	2015
kTGH	2013:878
kJapaneseKun	SUMAI ORU
kJapaneseOn	SOU
kJis0	3355
kKangXi	0282.120
kKorean	SONG
kMainlandTelegraph	1345
kMandarin	sòng
kMatthews	5565
kMeyerWempe	2892
kMojiJoho	MJ010116
kMorohashi	07078
kNelson	1285
kPhonetic	1275
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+2777+40.3.4 C+2777+75.4.3
kRSUnicode	40.4
kSBGY	344.18
kSMSZD2003Index	166.10 305.06
kSMSZD2003Readings	sòng粵sung3
kTaiwanTelegraph	1345
kTang	*sòng
kTGHZ2013	348.120:sòng
kTotalStrokes	7
kUnihanCore2020	GHJKMPT
kVietnamese	tống
kXerox	250:131
kXHC1983	1092.130:sòng