U+5E01 "币" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+5E01 "币" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "coin," "currency," or "money," and it is commonly used in modern Chinese as a simplified form of the traditional character "幣." It belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideographs block, and its structure combines the radical for "cloth" or "silk" (巾) with a phonetic component, reflecting its historical association with trade goods. In contemporary usage, "币" appears in words like "人民币" (Renminbi, the official currency of China) and "硬币" (coin), and it is also recognized in Japanese kanji and Korean Hanja, albeit often with variant meanings or frequency.

General Properties

Code Point U+5E01
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 币
HTML Hex Encoding 币
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0xB8 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding 0x5E01
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00005E01
C/C++/Java Escape \u5e01

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 273C5E
kCangjie HLB
kCantonese bai6
kDaeJaweon 0632.120
kDefinition currency, coins, legal tender
kEACC 273C5E
kFourCornerCode 2022
kGB0 1750
kHanYu 10728.030
kHanyuPinlu bì(58)
kHanyuPinyin 10728.030:yìn,bì
kIICore AG
kIRGDaeJaweon 0632.120
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10728.030
kIRGKangXi 0328.021
kIRG_GSource G0-3152
kIRG_JSource JMJ-010806
kIRG_TSource T4-214C
kJapanese イン
kTGH 2013:134
kKangXi 0328.021
kMainlandTelegraph 1578
kMandarin
kMojiJoho MJ010806
kMorohashi 08774
kPhonetic 1013
kRSUnicode 50.1
kSMSZD2003Index 192.06
kTGHZ2013 018.070:bì
kTotalStrokes 4
kTraditionalVariant "幣" U+5E63 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 0059.010:bì