U+5E47 "幇" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+5E47 "幇" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily carries the meaning of "to help" or "to assist," functioning as a variant form of the more common character 幫 (bāng). It is composed of the radical 巾 (cloth or fabric) combined with other elements, and its structure reflects historical and regional variations in the writing system of East Asian languages, particularly in traditional Chinese and Japanese contexts. In Japanese, this character is used in the word 幇助 (ほうじょ, hōjo), meaning "assistance," and it appears in legal or formal terminology, though it has largely been replaced by the simplified character 帮 in modern Standard Chinese. As part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block in the Unicode standard, 幇 ensures consistent digital representation across languages that share a common heritage in Chinese script, aiding in text processing and font rendering for historical documents and specialized vocabulary.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5E47
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	幇
HTML Hex Encoding	幇
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0xB9 0x87
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5E47
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005E47
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5e47

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	2D3C61
kCNS1986	E-3B3B
kCNS1992	3-3B3B
kCangjie	XGILB
kCantonese	bong1
kCihaiT	478.501
kCowles	3368
kDaeJaweon	0641.270
kDefinition	help, assist; defend; shoe upper
kEACC	2D3C61
kFennIndex	383.06
kFourCornerCode	4422.7
kHangul	방:0N
kHanYu	10746.070
kIICore	AJKP
kIRGDaeJaweon	0641.270
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10746.070
kIRGKangXi	0334.250
kIRG_GSource	GE-377C
kIRG_JSource	J0-5673
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-DDB4
kIRG_KSource	K0-5B2C
kIRG_TSource	T3-3B3B
kJapanese	ホウ たすける
kKoreanName	2015
kJapaneseKun	TASUKERU
kJapaneseOn	HOU
kJis0	5483
kKangXi	0334.250
kKarlgren	33
kKorean	PANG
kMandarin	bāng
kMatthews	4914
kMeyerWempe	2460
kMojiJoho	MJ010882
kMorohashi	08999
kNelson	1482
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+4736+50.3.9
kRSUnicode	50.9
kSemanticVariant	U+5E2E<kFenn U+5E6B<kMatthews,kMeyerWempe
kTotalStrokes	12
kUnihanCore2020	JKP