U+5F47 "彇" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+5F47 "彇" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rarely used Chinese character classified under the radical "彡" (bristle or fur), though its traditional radical is often given as "弓" (bow) in historical dictionaries. Its pronunciation in Mandarin is "xiāo," and it carries an archaic meaning related to the sound of a bowstring being drawn or a sharp, swift movement, possibly evoking the image of an arrow in flight. Found in classical Chinese texts such as the "Shuowen Jiezi," this character has no commonly recognized modern usage and is considered a dead or obsolete ideograph, primarily of interest to scholars of ancient epigraphy and historical linguistics.

General Properties

Code Point U+5F47
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 彇
HTML Hex Encoding 彇
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0xBD 0x87
UTF-16 Encoding 0x5F47
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00005F47
C/C++/Java Escape \u5f47

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 242C75
kCangjie NLX
kCantonese siu1
kDaeJaweon 0678.290
kFanqie 蘇彫
kGB5 3101
kHanYu 21003.080
kHanyuPinyin 21003.080:xiāo
kIRGDaeJaweon 0678.290
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 21003.080
kIRGKangXi 0360.410
kIRG_GSource G5-3F21
kIRG_JSource J14-2C32
kIRG_KPSource KP1-41D9
kIRG_TSource T4-495E
kJapanese ショウ
kJIS0213 2,12,18
kJapaneseKun YUWAZU
kJapaneseOn YOU
kJis1 2885
kKangXi 0360.410
kMandarin xiāo
kMojiJoho MJ011214
kMorohashi 09861
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+17610+57.3.13
kRSUnicode 57.12
kSBGY 144.02
kTotalStrokes 16