U+78C5 "磅" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
磅
U+78C5 "磅" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily functions as a unit of weight or measure, most commonly referring to the pound in contexts influenced by Western or modern standards, though it also retains historical usage as an ancient Chinese unit equivalent to around 0.5 kilograms or approximately 500 grams. Additionally, it can appear in terms related to scales or weighing devices, and in Chinese, it is used as a loanword for "pound" in both weight and currency, such as the British pound sterling. The character is composed of the radical for stone, 石, on the left, and the phonetic component 旁 on the right, reflecting its semantic and phonetic origins in the written language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+78C5 |
| 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 | 磅 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 磅 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0xA3 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x78C5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000078C5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u78c5 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | BD53 |
| kCCCII | 214E4B |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6D7C |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6D7C |
| kCangjie | MRYBS |
| kCantonese | bong6 |
| kCihaiT | 972.401 |
| kCowles | 3374 3540 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1251.150 |
| kDefinition | pound; weigh |
| kEACC | 214E4B |
| kFanqie | 普郎 撫庚 |
| kFenn | 262B |
| kFennIndex | 384.07 |
| kFourCornerCode | 1062.7 |
| kGB0 | 1685 |
| kGB1 | 1685 |
| kGradeLevel | 3 |
| kHangul | 방:0N |
| kHanYu | 42449.090 |
| kHanyuPinlu | bàng(17) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 42449.090:pāng,páng,bàng |
| kHKGlyph | 2834 |
| kIICore | AGTHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1251.150 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42449.090 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0834.180 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3075 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-BD53 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-627C |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-DDBE |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5B36 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6D7C |
| kJapanese | ホウ ヒョウ ポンド |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:3227 |
| kJapaneseKun | PONDO |
| kJapaneseOn | HOU |
| kJis0 | 6692 |
| kKangXi | 0834.180 |
| kKorean | PANG |
| kLau | 144 145 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 4319 |
| kMandarin | bàng |
| kMatthews | 4917 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2466 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ018614 MJ018614:E0101 MJ018615:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 24386 24386:E0101 |
| kPhonetic | 1081 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+5873+112.5.10 |
| kRSUnicode | 112.10 |
| kSBGY | 182.19 185.41 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 474.10 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | bàng粵bong6 páng粵pong4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 4319 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 011.160:bàng 276.080:páng |
| kTotalStrokes | 15 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kXerox | 252:304 |
| kXHC1983 | 0034.090:bàng 0854.010:páng |