U+5FF9 "忹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+5FF9 "忹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rarely used Chinese character that falls under the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) Unified Ideographs block. Its structure combines the radical "忄" (heart/mind, a variant of 心) on the left with the component "王" (king) on the right, though its precise meaning is obscure and it does not appear in common modern Chinese, Japanese, or Korean vocabularies. Historical references suggest it may have been a variant or corrupted form of other characters, possibly related to the concept of "madness" or "recklessness," but its usage is largely unattested in classical texts. In modern digital contexts, it primarily exists as a technical placeholder for encoding rather than as a functional part of everyday language.

General Properties

Code Point U+5FF9
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 忹
HTML Hex Encoding 忹
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0xBF 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding 0x5FF9
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00005FF9
C/C++/Java Escape \u5ff9

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 242F25
kCNS1986 E-2623
kCNS1992 3-2623
kCangjie PMG
kCantonese kong4
kDaeJaweon 0706.280
kHanYu 42275.080
kHanyuPinyin 42275.080:kuáng,wǎng
kIRGDaeJaweon 0706.280
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 42275.080
kIRGKangXi 0378.290
kIRG_GSource GKX-0378.29
kIRG_JSource JMJ-011432
kIRG_TSource T5-2438
kJapanese オウ
kKangXi 0378.290
kMandarin kuáng
kMojiJoho MJ011432
kMorohashi 10399
kRSUnicode 61.4
kTotalStrokes 7