U+5BB6 "家" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

家

U+5BB6 "家" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a fundamental Chinese character that represents the concept of "home," "family," or "household." Composed of the radical for "roof" (宀) over the character for "pig" (豕), its ancient form pictographically depicted a pig under a roof, referencing the traditional importance of livestock as a measure of a family's wealth and domestic stability in early agricultural societies. Today, this character appears in words such as "guójiā" for "nation" or literally "country home," "jiā tíng" for "family," and "huí jiā" meaning "to return home." It is widely used across East Asian languages including Chinese, Japanese (where it is pronounced "ie" or "ka"), and Korean (pronounced "ga"), and it carries profound cultural significance, symbolizing warmth, belonging, and lineage. As a common element in personal names and place names, U+5BB6 is a core character in the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideograph set, reflecting its central role in expressing one

General Properties

Code Point	U+5BB6
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	家
HTML Hex Encoding	家
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0xAE 0xB6
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5BB6
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005BB6
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5bb6

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	AE61
kCCCII	213A79
kCNS1986	1-5525
kCNS1992	1-5525
kCangjie	JMSO
kCantonese	gaa1
kCihaiT	420.102
kCowles	1410
kDaeJaweon	0566.030
kDefinition	house, home, residence; family
kEACC	27323E
kFanqie	古牙
kFenn	286A
kFennIndex	41.11
kFourCornerCode	3023.2
kGB0	2850
kGB1	2850
kGradeLevel	1
kGSR	0032a
kHangul	가:0E
kHanYu	20930.150
kHanyuPinlu	jiā(4719) jia(461)
kHanyuPinyin	20930.150:jiā,jià,jia,jie,gū
kHKGlyph	1013
kIICore	AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	0566.030
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	20930.150
kIRGKangXi	0286.170
kIRG_GSource	G0-3C52
kIRG_HSource	HB1-AE61
kIRG_JSource	J0-3248
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-CDAB
kIRG_KSource	K0-4A2B
kIRG_TSource	T1-5525
kIRG_VSource	V1-525F
kJapanese	カケコいえやいえするうち
kJoyoKanji	2010
kKoreanEducationHanja	2007
kTGH	2013:2099
kJapaneseKun	IE YA UCHI
kJapaneseOn	KA KE KO
kJis0	1840
kKangXi	0286.170
kKarlgren	347
kKorean	KA
kLau	776
kMainlandTelegraph	1367
kMandarin	jiā
kMatthews	594
kMeyerWempe	925
kMojiJoho	MJ010165 MJ010165:E0101 MJ010166:E0102
kMorohashi	07169 07169:E0101
kNelson	1311
kPhonetic	531
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+1352+40.3.7 C+1352+152.7.3
kRSUnicode	40.7
kSBGY	166.33
kSimplifiedVariant	"家" U+5BB6 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	169.04
kSMSZD2003Readings	jiā粵gaa1 jie粵gaa3 gū粵gu1
kTaiwanTelegraph	1367
kTang	*ga
kTGHZ2013	160.160,160.170:jiā 162.100:jia
kTotalStrokes	10
kTraditionalVariant	"傢" U+50A2 CJK Unified Ideograph-# "家" U+5BB6 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	GHJKMPT
kVietnamese	gia
kXerox	241:110
kXHC1983	0537.020:jiā 0537.030:jia 0584.040:jie