U+5E6D "幭" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+5E6D "幭" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and complex Chinese character that typically refers to a type of ancient ceremonial head covering, often described as a scarf or veil, particularly one used in funerary or ritual contexts. It consists of the radical 巾 (turban or cloth) on the left, indicating its association with textiles, and the phonetic component 蔑 on the right, which suggests its pronunciation in Mandarin as miè. Found primarily in classical Chinese texts and historical dictionaries, the character is not commonly used in modern written Chinese, and its meaning can vary slightly depending on the source, sometimes also denoting a cover or screen. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that scholars and enthusiasts can digitally represent and study this obscure but culturally significant ideograph.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5E6D
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	幭
HTML Hex Encoding	幭
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0xB9 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5E6D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005E6D
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5e6d

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	EFC5
kCCCII	222764
kCNS1986	2-6151
kCNS1992	2-6151
kCangjie	LBTWI
kCantonese	mit6
kCihaiT	479.506
kDaeJaweon	0644.340
kDefinition	cover
kEACC	222764
kFanqie	莫結
kFourCornerCode	4425.3
kGB3	2426
kGSR	0311f
kHanYu	10757.030
kHanyuPinyin	10757.030:miè
kIRGDaeJaweon	0644.340
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10757.030
kIRGKangXi	0338.030
kIRG_GSource	G3-383A
kIRG_HSource	HB2-EFC5
kIRG_JSource	J14-287E
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-40DE
kIRG_KSource	K2-3048
kIRG_TSource	T2-6151
kJapanese	メチ マチ ベツ バツ おおい
kJIS0213	2,08,94
kJapaneseKun	OHOHI
kJapaneseOn	BETSU MECHI BATSU MACHI
kJis1	2831
kKangXi	0338.030
kMandarin	miè
kMojiJoho	MJ010932 MJ010932:E0101 MJ010931:E0102 MJ010930:E0103 MJ010933:E0104
kMorohashi	09133:E0103
kPhonetic	906
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+17597+50.3.14
kRSUnicode	50.15
kSBGY	495.04
kTaiwanTelegraph	1622
kTotalStrokes	17
kUnihanCore2020	HMT
kXerox	311:103