U+5F39 "弹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+5F39 "弹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "bullet," "ball," "pellet," or "to shoot" and "to flick," carrying a dual semantic range of both nouns related to small spherical projectiles and verbs describing the action of propelling such objects or causing a vibration. Historically, it is a compound ideogram formed from the radical "弓" meaning "bow" on the left, and the phonetic component "单" (dān) on the right, which together suggest the concept of a projectile loosed from a bow. In modern usage, it appears in words like "子弹" (zǐdàn, bullet), "炸弹" (zhàdàn, bomb), and "弹琴" (tán qín, to play a stringed instrument), where the pronunciation shifts between dàn and tán depending on its role as a noun or verb. Its inclusion in CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs makes it mutually legible across East Asian writing systems, though its specific meaning and usage may vary slightly between languages, such as in Japanese where it also denotes a "spr

General Properties

Code Point	U+5F39
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	弹
HTML Hex Encoding	弹
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0xBC 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5F39
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005F39
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5f39

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	273D4B
kCNS1986	E-3563
kCNS1992	3-3563
kCangjie	NCWJ
kCantonese	daan6
kDefinition	pellet, bullet, shot, shell
kEACC	273D4B
kFourCornerCode	1825
kGB0	2115
kHanYu	20999.050
kHanyuPinlu	dàn(313) tán(50) tan(13)
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	20999.050
kIRGKangXi	0360.031
kIRG_GSource	G0-352F
kIRG_TSource	T3-3563
kTGH	2013:2473
kJapaneseKun	TAMA HAZUMU HIKU
kJapaneseOn	DAN TAN
kKangXi	0360.031
kKorean	THAN
kMainlandTelegraph	1734
kMandarin	dàn
kPhonetic	1294*
kRSUnicode	57.8
kSimplifiedVariant	"弹" U+5F39 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	208.14
kTGHZ2013	065.170:dàn 358.070:tán
kTotalStrokes	11
kTraditionalVariant	"弹" U+5F39 CJK Unified Ideograph-# "彈" U+5F48 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0211.050:dàn 1113.040:tán