U+5E63 "幣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
幣
U+5E63 "幣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that primarily means "currency," "money," or "coin," and it is also used in Japanese and Korean contexts with similar financial connotations. Historically, this character referred to a type of silk fabric used as a form of currency in ancient China, reflecting its original component related to cloth or textiles. In modern usage, it appears in compound words such as "貨幣" meaning "currency" and "紙幣" meaning "banknote," and it is commonly associated with economic and trade-related terminology across East Asian languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5E63 |
| 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 | 幣 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 幣 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xB9 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5E63 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005E63 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5e63 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B9F4 |
| kCCCII | 213C5E |
| kCNS1986 | 1-685C |
| kCNS1992 | 1-685C |
| kCangjie | FKLB |
| kCantonese | bai6 |
| kCihaiT | 479.302 |
| kCowles | 3213 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0644.010 |
| kDefinition | currency, coins, legal tender |
| kEACC | 213C5E |
| kFanqie | 毗祭 |
| kFenn | 561H |
| kFennIndex | 400.07 |
| kFourCornerCode | 9822.7 |
| kGB1 | 1750 |
| kGSR | 0341d |
| kHangul | 폐:0E |
| kHanYu | 10753.010 |
| kHanyuPinlu | bì(58) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10753.010:bì |
| kHKGlyph | 1170 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0644.010 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10753.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0337.020 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-3152 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B9F4 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4A3E |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F2B2 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-7847 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-685C |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-5378 |
| kJapanese | ヘイ ぜに たから ぬさ |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kJapaneseKun | NUSA TAKARA ZENI |
| kJapaneseOn | HEI |
| kJis0 | 4230 |
| kKangXi | 0337.020 |
| kKorean | PHYEY |
| kLau | 62 |
| kMandarin | bì |
| kMatthews | 5103 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2267a |
| kMojiJoho | MJ010917 MJ010917:E0102 MJ010916:E0103 |
| kMorohashi | 09088:E0103 |
| kNelson | 1490 |
| kPhonetic | 1013 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+3598+50.3.12 V+14010+50.3.12 |
| kRSUnicode | 50.12 |
| kSBGY | 376.35 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "币" U+5E01 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 196.08 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | bì粵bai6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 1618 |
| kTotalStrokes | 14 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | giẻ |
| kXerox | 252:070 |
| kXHC1983 | 0059.011:bì |