U+5F43 "彃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

彃

U+5F43 "彃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, though it is considered a rare or obsolete character in modern usage. Its traditional meaning is associated with the concept of a bow or a shooting gesture, as it is composed of the radical "弓" (bow) and often relates to archery or aiming. The character appears in classical Chinese texts but is not commonly used in contemporary writing, making it a subject of interest primarily for paleographers, linguists, and specialists in historical Chinese literature.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5F43
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	彃
HTML Hex Encoding	彃
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0xBD 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5F43
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005F43
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5f43

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	E1BF
kCCCII	22295E
kCNS1986	2-4A26
kCNS1992	2-4A26
kCangjie	NWTJ
kCantonese	bat1
kCihaiT	505.305
kDaeJaweon	0678.210
kDefinition	to shoot
kFanqie	卑吉
kFourCornerCode	1625.4
kGB3	2778
kGSR	0407i
kHanYu	21001.210
kHanyuPinyin	21001.210:bì
kIRGDaeJaweon	0678.210
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	21001.210
kIRGKangXi	0360.310
kIRG_GSource	G3-3B6E
kIRG_HSource	HB2-E1BF
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-011207
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-41D6
kIRG_KSource	K2-3134
kIRG_TSource	T2-4A26
kJapanese	ヒツヒチ
kJapaneseKun	IRU YUMIZURU
kJapaneseOn	HITSU HICHI
kKangXi	0360.310
kMandarin	bì
kMojiJoho	MJ011207
kMorohashi	09848
kPhonetic	1026
kRSUnicode	57.11
kSBGY	471.14
kSMSZD2003Index	209.04
kSMSZD2003Readings	bì粵bat1
kTotalStrokes	13
kUnihanCore2020	HMT