U+5E56 "幖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+5E56 "幖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that was historically used in East Asian writing systems, primarily in classical Chinese and Japanese kanji. Its meaning is associated with a flag, banner, or marker, often used to signify a distinguishing sign or standard, and it is typically used in contexts involving signaling, insignia, or identification. The character is composed of a semantic component related to cloth or a banner (幟) and a phonetic element, and while it is not commonly used in modern everyday language, it occasionally appears in historical texts, classical literature, or specialized terminology. In the Unicode standard, it belongs to the CJK Unified Ideographs block, which encodes common Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters.

General Properties

Code Point U+5E56
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 幖
HTML Hex Encoding 幖
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0xB9 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding 0x5E56
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00005E56
C/C++/Java Escape \u5e56

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 22274A
kCangjie LBMWF
kCantonese biu1
kDaeJaweon 0643.020
kFanqie 甫遙
kFourCornerCode 4129.1
kGB3 2419
kHanYu 10752.010
kHanyuPinyin 10752.010:biāo
kIRGDaeJaweon 0643.020
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10752.010
kIRGKangXi 0336.010
kIRG_GSource G3-3833
kIRG_JSource J14-287A
kIRG_KPSource KP1-40BD
kIRG_KSource K2-303E
kIRG_TSource T4-4330
kJapanese ヒョウ
kTGH 2013:7675
kJIS0213 2,08,90
kJapaneseKun SHIRUSHI HATA NOORI
kJapaneseOn HYOU
kJis1 2822
kKangXi 0336.010
kMandarin biāo
kMojiJoho MJ010899
kMorohashi 09053
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+17595+50.3.11
kRSUnicode 50.11
kSBGY 149.34
kTGHZ2013 022.100:biāo
kTotalStrokes 14
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 0071.040:biāo