U+5FCF "忏" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
忏
U+5FCF "忏" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to repent" or "to confess," often used in a Buddhist context to refer to the practice of repentance or seeking forgiveness through prayer or ritual. It is composed of the radical 忄, which signifies the heart or mind, and the phonetic component 千, giving it the pronunciation "chàn" in Mandarin Chinese. This character appears in classical and modern texts, particularly in religious scriptures and writings about moral reflection, and it underscores the cultural and linguistic importance of expressing remorse and spiritual cleansing within East Asian traditions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5FCF |
| 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 | 忏 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 忏 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xBF 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5FCF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005FCF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5fcf |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C9E2 |
| kCCCII | 242E78 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-2242 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-2242 |
| kCangjie | PHJ |
| kCantonese | caam3 |
| kCihaiT | 523.602 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0702.160 |
| kDefinition | regret, repent; confess sins |
| kEACC | 273F58 |
| kFourCornerCode | 9204.0 |
| kGB0 | 6667 |
| kHanYu | 42272.080 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 42272.080:qiǎn,qiān,chàn |
| kIICore | CG |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0702.160 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42272.080 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0376.070 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-6263 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-C9E2 |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-011382 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-315C |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-2242 |
| kIRG_VSource | V0-3559 |
| kJapanese | セン |
| kTGH | 2013:3630 |
| kKangXi | 0376.070 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 2039 |
| kMandarin | chàn |
| kMojiJoho | MJ011382 |
| kMorohashi | 10315 |
| kPhonetic | 183* |
| kRSUnicode | 61.3 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 218.01 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 037.240:chàn |
| kTotalStrokes | 6 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "懺" U+61FA CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHMT |
| kVietnamese | thin |
| kXHC1983 | 0120.010:chàn |