U+5E31 "帱" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+5E31 "帱" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideographs block, representing a logogram used in East Asian writing systems. Its primary meaning in modern Chinese is a "bed curtain" or "canopy," often referring to a silk or cloth covering for a bed or carriage, and historically it also carried connotations of a "covering" or "veil." The character is composed of the radical "巾" (cloth or turban) on the left side, indicating its association with textiles, and the phonetic component "寿" (longevity) on the right, which provides a clue to its pronunciation in Mandarin, rendered as "chóu" or "dào" depending on the specific usage. With a Unicode code point in the Basic Multilingual Plane, this ideograph is encoded for digital text processing and is particularly relevant in classical literature, such as in the "Book of Songs" (Shijing), where it appears in poetic descriptions of fabric coverings. Overall, it serves as a

General Properties

Code Point U+5E31
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 帱
HTML Hex Encoding 帱
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0xB8 0xB1
UTF-16 Encoding 0x5E31
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00005E31
C/C++/Java Escape \u5e31

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 28275F
kCangjie LBQKI
kCantonese cau4
kDefinition cover up; curtain
kEACC 28275F
kFourCornerCode 4524
kGB0 6492
kHanYu 10739.031
kIICore CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10739.031
kIRGKangXi 0332.121
kIRG_GSource G0-607C
kTGH 2013:6996
kKangXi 0332.121
kMainlandTelegraph 1621
kMandarin chóu
kPhonetic 1149*
kRSUnicode 50.7
kSMSZD2003Index 194.09
kTGHZ2013 048.070:chóu 068.100:dào
kTotalStrokes 10
kTraditionalVariant "幬" U+5E6C CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 0152.070:chóu 0221.020:dào