U+5C21 "尡" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+5C21 "尡" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare Chinese character that has historically been used as a variant of the glyph meaning "to shine" or "bright," primarily associated with the sun's radiance. Its structure combines the "small" (小) radical with the phonetic component "昆" (kūn), which can also suggest meanings related to "older brother" or "swarm," though the overall character is extremely uncommon in modern Chinese texts. This ideograph is classified under the Kangxi radical 42 (小) and appears in classical dictionaries such as the Kangxi Zidian, where it is noted for its usage in ancient script as a variant form of the character 晄 or 晃. Despite its obscurity, it remains encoded in the CJK Unified Ideographs block to preserve historical linguistic records for specialized scholarly and typographic purposes.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5C21
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	尡
HTML Hex Encoding	尡
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0xB0 0xA1
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5C21
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005C21
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5c21

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	223930
kCNS1986	E-6525
kCNS1992	3-6525
kCangjie	FUAPP
kCantonese	kwan1
kEACC	223930
kHanYu	10565.211
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10565.211
kIRGKangXi	0125.251
kIRG_GSource	GE-367C
kIRG_KSource	K4-004F
kIRG_TSource	T3-6525
kKangXi	0125.251
kMandarin	kun
kRSUnicode	42.11 10.12
kTotalStrokes	14