U+5E3C "帼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+5E3C "帼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily refers to a woman's headdress or hair ornament, often associated with historical or ceremonial attire, and by extension it can denote a woman of high status or virtue. In traditional Chinese culture, the character appears in compounds like "巾帼" (jīnguó), which symbolizes women, particularly heroic or distinguished women, as it originally described the headgear worn by ancient noblewomen. This character is classified under the CJK Unified Ideographs block, part of the Han script used in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages, and it typically carries the radical for "巾" (cloth or turban), reflecting its textile-related origins.

General Properties

Code Point U+5E3C
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 帼
HTML Hex Encoding 帼
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0xB8 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding 0x5E3C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00005E3C
C/C++/Java Escape \u5e3c

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 273C5C
kCangjie LBWMI
kCantonese gwok3
kDefinition women's headgear; mourning cap
kEACC 273C5C
kFourCornerCode 4620
kGB0 6494
kHanYu 10745.050
kIICore CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10745.050
kIRGKangXi 0333.161
kIRG_GSource G0-607E
kTGH 2013:4858
kKangXi 0333.161
kMainlandTelegraph 1613
kMandarin guó
kRSUnicode 50.8
kSMSZD2003Index 195.04
kTGHZ2013 126.090:guó
kTotalStrokes 11
kTraditionalVariant "幗" U+5E57 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 0426.030:guó