U+5E6B "幫" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
幫
U+5E6B "幫" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that primarily means "to help," "to assist," or "to support," and it also extends to meanings such as "group," "gang," or "side" in certain contexts. Its structure combines components suggesting fabric or cloth with a phonetic element, reflecting its historical roots in describing a piece of cloth or a patch for mending, which evolved metaphorically into the idea of lending support or forming a collective. This character is commonly used in modern written Chinese across various expressions, such as "幫助" (bāngzhù) for "help" or "幫派" (bāngpài) for "gang" or "faction," and it holds significance in both everyday communication and formal texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5E6B |
| 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 | 幫 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 幫 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xB9 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5E6B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005E6B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5e6b |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C0B0 |
| kCCCII | 213C61 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7359 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7359 |
| kCangjie | GIHAB |
| kCantonese | bong1 |
| kCihaiT | 479.502 |
| kCowles | 3367 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0644.280 |
| kDefinition | to help, assist; to defend; shoe upper |
| kEACC | 213C61 |
| kFanqie | 博旁 |
| kFenn | 142A |
| kFennIndex | 383.06 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4422.7 |
| kGB1 | 1679 |
| kGradeLevel | 1 |
| kHangul | 방:1N |
| kHanYu | 10756.150 |
| kHanyuPinlu | bāng(598) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10756.150:bāng |
| kHKGlyph | 1176 |
| kIICore | ATHM |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0644.280 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10756.150 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0337.230 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-306F |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C0B0 |
| kIRG_JSource | J14-287C |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-40DC |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-6146 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7359 |
| kIRG_VSource | V2-8B68 |
| kJapanese | ホウ くみ たすける |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJIS0213 | 2,08,92 |
| kJapaneseKun | TASUKERU |
| kJapaneseOn | HOU |
| kJis1 | 2829 |
| kKangXi | 0337.230 |
| kKarlgren | 33 |
| kKorean | PANG |
| kLau | 141 |
| kMandarin | bāng |
| kMatthews | 4914 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2460 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ010928 |
| kMorohashi | 09125 |
| kPhonetic | 406 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+14504+50.3.14 |
| kRSUnicode | 50.14 |
| kSBGY | 183.38 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+5E2E<kMatthews,kMeyerWempe U+5E47<kMatthews,kMeyerWempe |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "帮" U+5E2E CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 196.13 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | bāng粵bong1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 1620 |
| kTotalStrokes | 17 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |
| kXerox | 244:172 |
| kXHC1983 | 0033.071:bāng |