U+5C15 "尕" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+5C15 "尕" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used primarily in northwestern dialects of Mandarin, particularly in regions like Gansu, Qinghai, and Xinjiang, where it functions as a diminutive suffix or an adjective meaning "small" or "little." It is often applied as a term of endearment in names or everyday speech, such as in "尕娃" (gǎ wá) for a young child, and is written with the radical for "small" (小) at the top and the component for "乃" (nǎi) at the bottom. This character is not commonly used in standard written Chinese but holds cultural significance in local vernacular and is recognized in the Unicode standard for encoding such distinct regional forms.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5C15
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	尕
HTML Hex Encoding	尕
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0xB0 0x95
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5C15
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005C15
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5c15

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	C9D4
kCCCII	22223C
kCNS1986	2-2234
kCNS1992	2-2234
kCangjie	NSF
kCantonese	gaa2
kDefinition	small (used in place names)
kEACC	22223C
kFourCornerCode	1790.2
kGB0	7056
kGB1	7056
kHanYu	10562.040
kHanyuPinyin	10562.040:gǎ
kIICore	CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10562.040
kIRGKangXi	0297.011
kIRG_GSource	G0-6658
kIRG_HSource	HB2-C9D4
kIRG_KSource	K2-2E2D
kIRG_TSource	T2-2234
kTGH	2013:3560
kKangXi	0297.011
kMainlandTelegraph	1427
kMandarin	gǎ
kRSUnicode	42.2
kSMSZD2003Index	176.01
kSMSZD2003Readings	gǎ粵gaa2
kTaiwanTelegraph	1427
kTGHZ2013	104.110:gǎ
kTotalStrokes	5
kUnihanCore2020	GHMT
kXerox	311:051
kXHC1983	0349.150:gǎ