U+5E1C "帜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+5E1C "帜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "flag" or "banner," often used in compound words related to signaling, identification, or marking a prominent symbol. It is composed of the radical "巾" (meaning cloth or silk, indicating a textile-related meaning) and the phonetic component "只" (zhi), which provides a clue to its pronunciation in Mandarin as "zhì." Historically, this character has appeared in classical texts to refer to military standards or ceremonial banners, and in modern usage it appears in words such as "旗帜" (qí zhì) for "flag" or "standard." As part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) Unified Ideographs block of Unicode, it is encoded for consistent digital representation across languages and scripts that share this character set.

General Properties

Code Point U+5E1C
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 帜
HTML Hex Encoding 帜
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0xB8 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding 0x5E1C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00005E1C
C/C++/Java Escape \u5e1c

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 273C60
kCangjie LBRC
kCantonese ci3
kDefinition flag, pennant; sign; fasten
kEACC 273C60
kFourCornerCode 4628
kGB0 5436
kHanYu 10734.010
kHanyuPinlu zhì(51)
kIICore AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10734.010
kIRGKangXi 0330.131
kIRG_GSource G0-5644
kTGH 2013:1109
kKangXi 0330.131
kMainlandTelegraph 1615
kMandarin zhì
kPhonetic 164*
kRSUnicode 50.5
kSMSZD2003Index 193.15
kTGHZ2013 478.050:zhì
kTotalStrokes 8
kTraditionalVariant "幟" U+5E5F CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 1492.090:zhì