U+5144 "兄" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

兄
Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+5144 "兄" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a logogram used in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, meaning “elder brother” or “older sibling.” It carries connotations of respect and seniority within familial and social hierarchies, and in classical texts it can also denote a male peer or a senior figure. The character’s visual composition features an upright radical reminiscent of a person, with a horizontal stroke suggesting authority or speech, reflecting its role in kinship terminology across East Asian cultures.

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General Properties

Code Point
U+5144
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
兄
HTML Hex Encoding
兄
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE5 0x85 0x84
UTF-16 Encoding
0x5144
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00005144
C/C++/Java Escape
\u5144

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

kBigFive
A553
kCCCII
213270
kCNS1986
1-4573
kCNS1992
1-4573
kCangjie
RHU
kCantonese
hing1
kCihaiT
133.502
kCowles
1070
kDaeJaweon
0259.030
kDefinition
elder brother
kEACC
213270
kFanqie
許榮
kFenn
755A
kFennIndex
188.08
kFourCornerCode
6021.0
kGB0
4854
kGB1
4854
kGradeLevel
2
kGSR
0765a
kHangul
형:0E
kHanYu
10266.040
kHanyuPinlu
xiōng(97) xiong(25)
kHanyuPinyin
10266.040:xiōng,kuàng
kHKGlyph
0263
kIICore
AGTJHKMP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
10266.040
kIRG_GSource
G0-5056
kIRG_HSource
HB1-A553
kIRG_JSource
J0-373B
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-F3E1
kIRG_KSource
K0-7A7C
kIRG_TSource
T1-4573
kIRG_VSource
V1-4C38
kJapanese
ケイ キョウ あに え
kJoyoKanji
2010
kKoreanEducationHanja
2007
kTGH
2013:250
kJapaneseKun
ANI E
kJapaneseOn
KEI KYOU
kJis0
2327
kKangXi
0123.090
kKarlgren
163
kKorean
HYENG
kLau
1181
kMainlandTelegraph
0338
kMandarin
xiōng
kMatthews
2807
kMeyerWempe
724
kMojiJoho
MJ007214
kMorohashi
01343
kNelson
0875
kPhonetic
474
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+1809+10.2.3 C+1809+30.3.2
kRSUnicode
10.3
kSBGY
186.34
kSMSZD2003Index
43.13 89.13
kSMSZD2003Readings
xiōng粵hing1
kTaiwanTelegraph
0338
kTang
*xiuæng xiuæng
kTGHZ2013
410.030:xiōng
kTotalStrokes
5
kUnihanCore2020
GHJKMPT
kVietnamese
huynh
kXerox
244:300
kXHC1983
1293.030:xiōng