U+5F66 "彦" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
彦
U+5F66 "彦" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents a person of virtue, talent, or moral excellence, often used in names and classical literature to denote an honorable or scholarly individual. This ideograph is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified character set, enabling consistent digital representation across East Asian languages. In Japanese, it is commonly read as "hiko" in names, while in Chinese it carries the pinyin "yàn," appearing in words like 彦士 (yàn shì), meaning a talented scholar. Its structure combines the semantic component for "literary" or "pattern" with a phonetic element, reflecting its traditional association with elegance and wisdom.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5F66 |
| 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 | 彦 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 彦 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xBD 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5F66 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005F66 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5f66 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCNS1986 | E-2C50 |
| kCNS1992 | 3-2C50 |
| kCangjie | YHHHH |
| kCantonese | jin6 |
| kDefinition | elegant |
| kEACC | 453D53 |
| kFenn | 284G |
| kFennIndex | 628.04 |
| kFourCornerCode | 0022.2 |
| kGB0 | 4969 |
| kGB1 | 4969 |
| kHangul | 언:0N |
| kHanYu | 20854.090 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 20854.090:yàn,pán |
| kIICore | AGJKMP |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 20854.090 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0363.131 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5165 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4927 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F8BA |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6569 |
| kIRG_MSource | MD-5F66 |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-2C50 |
| kJapanese | ゲン ひこ |
| kJinmeiyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:4314 |
| kJapaneseKun | HIKO |
| kJapaneseOn | GEN |
| kJis0 | 4107 |
| kKangXi | 0363.131 |
| kKorean | EN |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 1750 |
| kMandarin | yàn |
| kMojiJoho | MJ011258 |
| kMorohashi | 09981 |
| kNelson | 3347 |
| kPhonetic | 1580 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+3481+59.3.6 |
| kRSUnicode | 59.6 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "彦" U+5F66 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kTang | bgyɛ̀n |
| kTGHZ2013 | 424.040:yàn |
| kTotalStrokes | 9 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "彥" U+5F65 CJK Unified Ideograph-# "彦" U+5F66 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GJKP |
| kVietnameseNumeric | 1000 |
| kXHC1983 | 1331.060:yàn |