U+5DEF "巯" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+5DEF "巯" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents the chemical element sulfur, often used in modern Chinese specifically for the organic chemistry term "mercapto" or "sulfhydryl" group (as in "巯基"), deriving from the radical for "stone" or "rock" combined with phonetic components, and it appears in technical and scientific contexts rather than everyday language.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5DEF
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	巯
HTML Hex Encoding	巯
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0xB7 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5DEF
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005DEF
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5def

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	282659
kCangjie	XNMYI
kCantonese	kau4
kDefinition	an atom group
kEACC	282659
kFourCornerCode	1011
kGB0	5947
kHanYu	10414.030
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10414.030
kIRGKangXi	0326.051
kIRG_GSource	G0-5B4F
kTGH	2013:5323
kKangXi	0326.051
kMainlandTelegraph	8360
kMandarin	qiú
kRSUnicode	48.9
kSMSZD2003Index	191.02
kTGHZ2013	306.160:qiú
kTotalStrokes	12
kTraditionalVariant	"巰" U+5DF0 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0941.130:qiú