U+5FAE "微" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+5FAE "微" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character meaning "small," "tiny," "minute," or "subtle," and it carries profound cultural and philosophical significance. It is composed of the radical for "double person" (彳) on the left, suggesting motion or action, and a complex phonetic and semantic component on the right that evokes the idea of something fine or barely perceptible. This character appears frequently in classical texts, such as in the Daoist concept of "wei miao" (微妙) meaning "subtle and profound," and in modern contexts, it forms part of words like "weibo" (微博) for "microblog" and "weixin" (微信) for "micro-message" or WeChat. As a core element in the vocabulary of measurement, degree, and nuance, "微" illustrates the importance of the minuscule in Chinese thought, where even the smallest details can hold great meaning.

General Properties

Code Point U+5FAE
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 微
HTML Hex Encoding 微
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0xBE 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding 0x5FAE
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00005FAE
C/C++/Java Escape \u5fae

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

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kHanYu 20837.100
kHanyuPinlu wēi(511)
kHanyuPinyin 20837.100:wēi
kHKGlyph 1286
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kIRGDaeJaweon 0696.150
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 20837.100
kIRGKangXi 0370.120
kIRG_GSource G0-4E22
kIRG_HSource HB1-B74C
kIRG_JSource J0-4879
kIRG_KPSource KP0-DBFB
kIRG_KSource K0-5A30
kIRG_TSource T1-6372
kIRG_VSource V1-546F
kJapanese ビ かすか ひそかに
kJoyoKanji 2010
kKoreanEducationHanja 2007
kTGH 2013:2965
kJapaneseKun KASUKA NAI
kJapaneseOn BI
kJis0 4089
kKangXi 0370.120
kKorean MI
kLau 2124
kMainlandTelegraph 1792
kMandarin wēi
kMatthews 7061
kMeyerWempe 1805
kMojiJoho MJ011343 MJ011343:E0102 MJ011345:E0103 MJ011344:E0104 MJ011342:E0105
kMorohashi 10203:E0105
kNelson 1631
kPhonetic 888
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+3469+60.3.10 V+13992+60.3.10
kRSUnicode 60.10
kSBGY 063.30
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kSMSZD2003Readings wēi粵mei4
kTaiwanTelegraph 1792
kTang *miəi
kTGHZ2013 381.100:wēi
kTotalStrokes 13
kUnihanCore2020 GHJKMPT
kVietnamese vi
kXerox 245:171
kXHC1983 1191.090:wēi