U+5BAA "宪" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+5BAA "宪" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character commonly used in modern Mandarin, primarily meaning "constitution," "statute," or "law." It is a simplified form of the traditional character 憲, which historically conveyed the notion of regulations or legal decrees. The character is composed of the radical 宀 (roof or shelter) and the phonetic component 先 (meaning "before" or "first"), suggesting a foundational or overarching set of rules. In contemporary usage, it appears in key terms such as 宪法 (xiànfǎ, "constitution") and 宪章 (xiànzhāng, "charter"), making it a fundamental element in legal and political discourse in Chinese-speaking communities.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5BAA
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	宪
HTML Hex Encoding	宪
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0xAE 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5BAA
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005BAA
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5baa

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

kCCCII	273F3E
kCangjie	JHGU
kCantonese	hin3
kDefinition	constitution, statute, law
kEACC	273F3E
kFourCornerCode	3021
kGB0	4760
kHanYu	20927.030
kHanyuPinlu	xiàn(56)
kHanyuPinyin	20927.030:xiòng,xiàn
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	20927.030
kIRGKangXi	0285.101
kIRG_GSource	G0-4F5C
kIRG_HSource	H-FC7D
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-010147
kJapanese	キョウ ボウ コン
kTGH	2013:1699
kKangXi	0285.101
kMainlandTelegraph	2009
kMandarin	xiàn
kMojiJoho	MJ010147
kMorohashi	07148
kPhonetic	472 1199
kRSUnicode	40.6
kSMSZD2003Index	168.09
kTGHZ2013	400.010:xiàn
kTotalStrokes	9
kTraditionalVariant	"憲" U+61B2 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	GH
kXHC1983	1250.030:xiàn