U+5E4C "幌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+5E4C "幌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character used in both Mandarin and Japanese, where it generally denotes a "curtain," "screen," or "canopy," often referring to a cloth hung for concealment or decoration. In a more specific sense, it can also mean a "shop sign" or "flag," particularly in the context of a storefront banner in Japanese culture, known as a "noren" or similar hanging advertisement. The character is composed of the radical for "cloth" or "towel" (巾) combined with a phonetic component that hints at its pronunciation, which is "huǎng" in Mandarin and "kō" or "tobari" in Japanese. This ideograph appears in compound words like "幌子" (huǎngzi) meaning a "pretext" or "façade" in Chinese, or "暖幌" (danbō) referring to a warming curtain in Japanese.

General Properties

Code Point U+5E4C
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 幌
HTML Hex Encoding 幌
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0xB9 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding 0x5E4C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00005E4C
C/C++/Java Escape \u5e4c

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

kBigFive B745
kCCCII 213C59
kCNS1986 1-636B
kCNS1992 1-636B
kCangjie LBAFU
kCantonese fong2
kCihaiT 478.504
kCowles 794
kDaeJaweon 0642.080
kDefinition curtain, cloth screen
kEACC 213C59
kFanqie 胡廣
kFenn 390F
kFennIndex 207.03
kFourCornerCode 4621.1
kGB0 2747
kGB1 2747
kHangul 황:0N
kHanYu 10750.010
kHanyuPinyin 10750.010:huǎng
kHKGlyph 1168
kIICore AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon 0642.080
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10750.010
kIRGKangXi 0335.020
kIRG_GSource G0-3B4F
kIRG_HSource HB1-B745
kIRG_JSource J0-4B5A
kIRG_KPSource KP0-F6DC
kIRG_KSource K0-7C46
kIRG_TSource T1-636B
kJapanese コウ オウ ほろ とばり
kJinmeiyoKanji 2010
kKoreanName 2015
kTGH 2013:2935
kJapaneseKun HORO
kJapaneseOn KOU
kJis0 4358
kKangXi 0335.020
kKarlgren 105
kKorean HWANG
kMainlandTelegraph 1610
kMandarin huǎng
kMatthews 2278
kMeyerWempe 533b
kMojiJoho MJ010887
kMorohashi 09022
kNelson 1485
kPhonetic 376
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+3720+50.3.10
kRSUnicode 50.10
kSBGY 315.15
kSMSZD2003Index 195.14
kSMSZD2003Readings huǎng粵fong2
kTaiwanTelegraph 1610
kTGHZ2013 147.050:huǎng
kTotalStrokes 13
kUnihanCore2020 GHJKMPT
kXerox 267:063
kXHC1983 0498.030:huǎng