U+5C23 "尣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+5C23 "尣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that historically represents a person with a deformed or crippled leg, often interpreted as meaning "lame" or "crippled," and it is a variant form of the more common character "尢" (U+5C22). This ideograph belongs to the Kangxi radical classification of the "big" or "lame" radical (查), and it appears in classical Chinese texts and older dictionaries, though its usage is rare in modern written Chinese. In Unicode, it is encoded under the CJK Unified Ideographs block, serving as a standardized representation for this specific logograph within digital text systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5C23
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	尣
HTML Hex Encoding	尣
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0xB0 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5C23
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005C23
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5c23

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	237E61
kCangjie	CHU
kCantonese	wong1
kDaeJaweon	0593.020
kDefinition	lame; the first form is Radical 43
kFanqie	烏光
kFennIndex	594.02
kHanYu	10551.130
kIRGDaeJaweon	0593.020
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10551.130
kIRGKangXi	0298.021
kIRG_GSource	GE-367D
kIRG_HSource	H-8BC9
kIRG_JSource	J13-4F5D
kIRG_KSource	K2-2E30
kIRG_TSource	T4-214B
kJapanese	オウ
kJIS0213	1,47,61
kJapaneseKun	MAGEASHI
kJapaneseOn	OU
kJis1	2677
kKangXi	0298.021
kMandarin	wāng
kMatthews	7033
kMojiJoho	MJ010304 MJ010304:E0101 MJ010305:E0102
kMorohashi	07540 07540:E0101
kPhonetic	1455
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+14476+43.4.0
kRSUnicode	43.0
kSBGY	182.22
kSemanticVariant	U+5C22<kMatthews
kTotalStrokes	4
kUnihanCore2020	H