U+5B40 "孀" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

孀
Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+5B40 "孀" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character classified as a Han (CJK) ideograph, meaning "widow" and specifically denoting a woman who has lost her husband and not remarried. This character is composed of the radical "女" (woman) on the left, indicating its feminine association, and the phonetic component "霜" (shuāng, meaning frost) on the right, which contributes to its pronunciation. It is used in classical literary contexts as well as in modern Chinese to refer to a widow, often carrying connotations of solitude and chastity within historical social structures.

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General Properties

Code Point
U+5B40
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
孀
HTML Hex Encoding
孀
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE5 0xAD 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding
0x5B40
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00005B40
C/C++/Java Escape
\u5b40

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
C45C
kCCCII
213A4C
kCNS1986
1-7967
kCNS1992
1-7967
kCangjie
VMBU
kCantonese
soeng1
kCihaiT
393.104
kCowles
3629
kDaeJaweon
0542.180
kDefinition
widow
kEACC
213A4C
kFanqie
色莊
kFenn
847F
kFennIndex
467.02
kFourCornerCode
4146.3
kGB0
7055
kGB1
7055
kGSR
0731h
kHangul
상:0N
kHanYu
21090.070
kHanyuPinyin
21090.070:shuāng
kHKGlyph
0968
kIICore
AGTHKMP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
21090.070
kIRG_GSource
G0-6657
kIRG_HSource
HB1-C45C
kIRG_JSource
J0-5552
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-E1C9
kIRG_KSource
K0-5F45
kIRG_TSource
T1-7967
kIRG_VSource
V2-8B4E
kJapanese
ソウ ショウ やもめ
kKoreanName
2015
kTGH
2013:6446
kJapaneseKun
YAMOME
kJapaneseOn
SOU
kJis0
5350
kKangXi
0273.430
kKorean
SANG
kLau
2737
kMainlandTelegraph
1307
kMandarin
shuāng
kMatthews
5920
kMeyerWempe
2577
kMojiJoho
MJ010035
kMorohashi
06885
kNelson
1263
kPhonetic
1161
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+4609+38.3.17
kRSUnicode
38.17
kSBGY
176.30
kSemanticVariant
U+971C<kLau
kSMSZD2003Index
162.10
kSMSZD2003Readings
shuāng粵soeng1
kTaiwanTelegraph
1307
kTGHZ2013
344.070:shuāng
kTotalStrokes
20
kUnihanCore2020
GHJKMPT
kXerox
265:163
kXHC1983
1073.030:shuāng