U+5E57 "幗" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
幗
U+5E57 "幗" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character used in historical contexts, primarily referring to a type of woman's headdress or hood, often associated with mourning or funerary customs, and it appears in classic literature such as the "Book of Rites." This character combines the radical for "cloth" or "silk" (巾) with a phonetic component to denote its specific meaning, and while it is rarely used in modern writing, it remains part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block for representing historical and specialized texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5E57 |
| 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 | 幗 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 幗 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xB9 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5E57 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005E57 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5e57 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B9F6 |
| kCCCII | 213C5C |
| kCNS1986 | 1-685E |
| kCNS1992 | 1-685E |
| kCangjie | LBWIM |
| kCantonese | gwok3 |
| kCihaiT | 479.101 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0643.060 |
| kDefinition | women's headgear; mourning cap |
| kEACC | 213C5C |
| kFanqie | 古對 古獲 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4620.0 |
| kGB1 | 6494 |
| kHanYu | 10752.050 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10752.050:guó |
| kHKGlyph | 1172 |
| kIICore | ATHM |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0643.060 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10752.050 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0336.050 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-607E |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B9F6 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-566E |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-40B2 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-303F |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-685E |
| kIRG_VSource | V2-8B66 |
| kJapanese | カク カイ キャク ケ |
| kJapaneseKun | KAMIKAZARI |
| kJapaneseOn | KAKU |
| kJis0 | 5478 |
| kKangXi | 0336.050 |
| kMandarin | guó |
| kMatthews | 3740 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1413c |
| kMojiJoho | MJ010900 |
| kMorohashi | 09057 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+4731+50.3.11 |
| kRSUnicode | 50.11 |
| kSBGY | 388.46 513.35 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "帼" U+5E3C CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 195.17 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | guó粵gwok3 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 1613 |
| kTotalStrokes | 14 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJMT |
| kXerox | 270:124 |
| kXHC1983 | 0426.031:guó |