U+5F3E "弾" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+5F3E "弾" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "bullet," "shell," or "ball," and is also commonly used as a variant form of the character 彈 (tan) in Japanese, where it appears in words like 弾丸 (dangan, meaning bullet) and 弾く (hiku, meaning to play a stringed instrument or to flick). This character combines the radical 弓 (bow) with the phonetic component 单 (dan), reflecting its historical association with archery and projectile force. In modern usage, it is particularly prevalent in Japanese kanji, where it denotes not only physical projectiles but also concepts of elasticity, rebounding, and musical performance.

General Properties

Code Point U+5F3E
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 弾
HTML Hex Encoding 弾
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0xBC 0xBE
UTF-16 Encoding 0x5F3E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00005F3E
C/C++/Java Escape \u5f3e

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

kCNS1986 E-3B44
kCNS1992 3-3B44
kCangjie NFWJ
kCantonese daan6
kDaeJaweon 0678.100
kDefinition (variant of 彈) a pellet, bullet, shot, shell
kEACC 4B3D4B
kFourCornerCode 1925.6
kHanYu 21000.041
kIICore AJ
kIRGDaeJaweon 0678.100
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 21000.041
kIRGKangXi 0360.221
kIRG_GSource GE-384B
kIRG_JSource J0-4346
kIRG_KPSource KP1-41CD
kIRG_KSource K2-3133
kIRG_TSource T3-3B44
kJapanese ダン タン ひく はずむ たま ただす はじく
kJoyoKanji 2010
kJapaneseKun TAMA HAZUMU HIKU
kJapaneseOn DAN TAN
kJis0 3538
kKangXi 0360.221
kKorean THAN
kMandarin dàn
kMojiJoho MJ011203
kMorohashi 09836'
kNelson 1575
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+2948+57.3.9
kRSUnicode 57.9
kTotalStrokes 12
kUnihanCore2020 J