U+5F41 "彁" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+5F41 "彁" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and somewhat controversial Chinese character, often cited as a so-called "ghost character" (幽霊文字) in the context of CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) encoding history. It was originally included in the JIS X 0208 standard based on a misreading or erroneous source, contributing to its status as an irregular or artificial character with no confirmed traditional usage in authentic Chinese or Japanese texts. While it exists within the Unicode standard for historical encoding consistency, it lacks a clear meaning or established phonetic value and is generally not used in modern writing.

General Properties

Code Point U+5F41
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 彁
HTML Hex Encoding 彁
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0xBD 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding 0x5F41
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00005F41
C/C++/Java Escape \u5f41

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

kCangjie NMRR
kCantonese go1
kEACC 69573B
kFourCornerCode 1122.1
kHanYu 21001.051
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 21001.051
kIRGKangXi 0360.301
kIRG_GSource GE-384C
kIRG_JSource J0-573B
kIRG_TSource TF-413F
kJapaneseOn SEI
kJis0 5527
kKangXi 0360.301
kMandarin
kMojiJoho MJ011206
kPhonetic 643*
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+4774+57.3.10
kRSUnicode 57.10
kTotalStrokes 13
kUnihanCore2020 J