U+5143 "元" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+5143 "元" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "yuan," referring to the basic unit of currency in China (the renminbi) as well as in Japanese and Korean monetary systems. It also carries meanings of "first," "beginning," or "original," as seen in words like 元素 (element) and 元旦 (New Year's Day). Historically, it was used to denote the first emperor of a dynasty or the founding era, and it appears in the name of the Yuan Dynasty, established by Kublai Khan. This character, written with four strokes, is common in both simplified and traditional Chinese scripts and is widely recognized across East Asian languages.
General Properties
Code Point
U+5143
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
元
HTML Hex Encoding
元
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE5 0x85 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding
0x5143
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00005143
C/C++/Java Escape
\u5143
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Han
Unihan Properties
kBigFive
A4B8
kCCCII
21326D
kCNS1986
1-4477
kCNS1992
1-4477
kCangjie
MMU
kCantonese
jyun4
kCihaiT
131.402
kCowles
4918
kDaeJaweon
0258.030
kDefinition
first; dollar; origin; head
kEACC
21326D
kFanqie
愚袁
kFenn
388C
kFennIndex
650.03
kFourCornerCode
1021.1
kGB0
5210
kGB1
5210
kGradeLevel
1
kGSR
0257a
kHangul
원:0E
kHanYu
10264.060
kHanyuPinlu
yuán(325)
kHanyuPinyin
10264.060:yuán
kHKGlyph
0261
kIICore
AGTJHKMP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
10264.060
kIRG_GSource
G0-542A
kIRG_HSource
HB1-A4B8
kIRG_JSource
J0-3835
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-FEB0
kIRG_KSource
K0-6A2A
kIRG_TSource
T1-4477
kIRG_VSource
V1-4C37
kJapanese
ゲン ガン もと はじめ
kJoyoKanji
2010
kKoreanEducationHanja
2007
kTGH
2013:80
kJapaneseKun
MOTO KOUBE
kJapaneseOn
GEN GAN
kJis0
2421
kKangXi
0123.060
kKorean
WEN
kLau
3547
kMainlandTelegraph
0337
kMandarin
yuán
kMatthews
7707
kMeyerWempe
3662
kMojiJoho
MJ007213
kMorohashi
01340
kNelson
0275
kPhonetic
1624
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+1897+7.2.2 C+1897+10.2.2
kRSUnicode
10.2
kSBGY
113.01
kSMSZD2003Index
43.12 13.04
kSMSZD2003Readings
yuán粵jyun4
kTaiwanTelegraph
0337
kTang
*ngiuæn ngiuæn
kTGHZ2013
450.190:yuán
kTotalStrokes
4
kUnihanCore2020
GHJKMPT
kVietnamese
nguyên
kXerox
242:253
kXHC1983
1419.090:yuán